Articles for Pastors
15 Awesome Preaching Quotes To Inspire Your Preaching
If you're trying to grow in the craft of preaching, let these preaching quotes challenge your approach to the pulpit. And be encouraged--you CAN make a difference!
Articles for Pastors
8 Signs of a Dangerous Pastor Who Will Destroy Your Church
You’re on your church’s pastor search committee? Good for you. It’s a difficult task, one that can make or break your church for a long time to come. But this can be one of the finest services you render for the Lord and His church, especially if you help your church avoid dangerous pastors.
Pastor How To's
The Problem With Altar Calls – 4 Reasons NOT to Give Them
When altar calls are properly handled, lost people are asked to trust Christ as the only way to heaven. The issue is responding to Christ, not to you.
Administration
Four States Of Transition Management
What is missing from nearly every change process is transition management. It’s helpful to understand why a change process isn’t sufficient for most change efforts.
Administration
My First Four Lessons as an Executive Pastor
Do you know the distinguishing differences between being the leader and supporting the leader?
Articles for Pastors
Pastors and Pay: How To Negotiate a Pastor Salary
It seems awfully unspiritual to talk about the pastor salary, especially during the candidating process. But our rejection of greediness does not constitute a vow of poverty. Here are a few thoughts, especially if you’re considering a pastoral transition.
Articles for Pastors
Pastor, Use This Checklist for Better Preaching
I am not the best preacher on the planet, but I am passionate about better preaching. Here are a few things that I have learned along the way and things that I am currently trying to implement.
Pastor How To's
Big, Unfriendly Churches Are Bad — But Small Unfriendly Churches Are Dangerous
Not to say that a large crowd is bad, but the mere fact of its size causes us to act more passively, even in church. So even in unfriendly churches we put on our polite crowd-smile and become an audience.
Pastor How To's
Growing in God’s Strength: 10 Promises John Piper Wants You to Memorize
Growing in God's strength raises a couple of questiuons: How do you do a task in the strength of another? How do you exert your will to do something in such a way that you are relying on the will of another to make it happen?
Pastor How To's
7 Foundations for Church Unity
With understated simplicity, God reveals something of his nature in just 62 words. He loves church unity and bestows his blessing wherever he finds it.
Pastor How To's
The Arrogant Pastor — How NOT to Be One
The arrogant pastor. Even writing an aticle on this almost guarantees comments about pots and kettles. I'm as human as you are. And if we are all honest with ourselves, we would admit that it is a struggle for each of us in some way.
