Articles for Pastors

Because sloth is failure to pursue our first love, busyness can actually be a good cover for the sloth beneath the surface.

There are numerous reasons why people have become disillusioned with the American Evangelical church. Out of my own heart and with my ear to the ground, I’ve listed out at least fifteen reasons why.

“What is the matter with the world?” Martyn Lloyd-Jones asked. “Why . . . war and all this unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? . . . There is only one answer to these questions—sin. Nothing else; it is just sin.”

When considering reasons not to homeschool we must also understand that there are also families in our congregations that cannot educate their children at home for various reasons, most of them noble and sincere.

There are secrets the pastor's wife will never tell you. I asked a panel of pastors’ wives, “If you could tell the church a few things about your role, what would you say?” Their responses were strangely similar.

While there are many potential characteristics of a sick church, I have found 10 symptoms to be consistently common.

Endurance is a quality consistently found among great leaders. It is a sister to resilience, as the ability to “bounce back from a setback.” Endurance is the ability to just keep going regardless of the obstacles and pressure.

A non anxious presence describes a personal quality that when a leader exhibits it, can keep a family or a group’s overall emotional reactivity and anxiety down.