Articles for Pastors

On the October 3 episode of “Ask Pastor John,” theologian John Piper offers encouraging words to a listener who, for years, has asked his ministry the same short, powerful question: “How do I pray for my husband to be saved?”

This past year, it feels as though there has been a spell put on the world that has frozen hearts, frozen dreams, and is desiring to freeze our joy. There's a war we're facing in our world today, a war on Joy.

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.