Articles for Pastors

Satan tells lies to keep us from praying. He uses pleasures and misinformation and our laziness to keep us from praying. He uses false teachers and busy schedules and great television to keep us from praying.

So here are the 10 things (not necessarily in any particular order) that I thought my new Christian friend should sink down deep into his heart, head and hands as he travels his first year with Jesus.

Is there a secret to a deeper love for Jesus? Let us focus on God’s incredible love for us, and ask him to keep fanning the flame of our love for him. Here is my hope. I don’t love Jesus as much as I should, but I will. Increasingly. For all eternity.

Philip Wagner offers insight into the six major struggles pastors face in the ministry and how to overcome them.

These are five church innovations that I’ve taken note of and that I’m learning from as I think about our ministry.

There are five types of thinkers. Once I know how a guy thinks, I can better challenge him to think through an issue and make a good decision.

I am a senior adult, and I have five specific prayers for my attitude about my church. They are reminders I will need to review constantly and which I hope other senior citizens will as well.

To stay in the ministry any length of time, a pastor needs to learn to fight some predictable “demons.”