Articles for Pastors

So We’re Unmarried but Living Together—What’s the Big Deal?

Cohabitation is becoming more widely accepted as an alternative to marriage, the result that marriage is being delayed or disregarded altogether. Cohabitation is here to stay. How do we counsel those for whom living together is the expected norm?

5 Questions for Great Stage Communication

As a leader, you must have good communication, it may be to 30, 300, or 3,000, but there simply is no option. How effective you are is up to you.

7 Practices To Help Keep Your Aging Church Young

All churches become chronologically older every year, but why does an aging church remain young, vital, and more spiritually fruitful than others?

10 Secrets of Many Senior Pastors

Many pastors and ministry leaders carry several of the same kinds of secrets.

Can We Hope in the Face of Death?

We’ll turn ourselves inside out, we’ll do anything not to say that word. That one word. The “D” word: Death. Can we hope in the face of death?

Uvalde, One Year Later

One year after the shooting, and the wounds in Uvalde are still bleeding, requiring a spiritual doctor. Jesus said he came to bind up the wounds and heal the brokenhearted, and then he commissioned believers to be his hands and feet. Who will claim the words of Jesus and be the doctor?

4 Daily Prayer Practices for Pastors and Church Leaders

You can learn a lot about people by the kinds of prayers they pray. We have a sample of a leader’s prayer practices in the book of Nehemiah.

5 Spiritual Dangers of Skipping Church

Missing church is a bad idea. It is spiritually dangerous for those who profess Christ to regularly skip worship with their church families. Here's why.