Articles for Pastors

I want to share some quick reminders for pastors regarding Christmas season planning. If you are intentional, Christmas can be one of your church’s best momentum-building times of the year.

Certainly God is welcome at your church, but is he really necessary? It's not all that hard to build a ministry without God. What a terrifying place to be.

Last month marked one year since I stepped away from the pastorate. I’ve shunned the term retirement like the plague, vowing to remain active in ministry and seeking to use the rest of my life to serve the Lord.

If you're engaged in expository preaching, chances are you've had to teach on a passage you don't fully understand.

I love the Christmas season but the Christmas seasoncan be hard for pastors. Pastors experience Christmas stress for a host of reasons, one of them being taking on the stress and heartache of the people to whom they are ministering.

From Isaiah: the Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.

Jesus was the master teacher. Thousands would gather to hang on his every word. People traveled far and wide just to hear him. The lessons he taught spread like fire and literally changed the world.

On the outside, it looked like I was just taking good sermon notes. But what I was really doing was exploring secrets of kingdom living