Pastors

The Dead Sea Will Live Again

The Dead Sea is nearly ten times saltier than the oceans. But for those who take a literal, futurist interpretation of eschatological texts, there is hope for the Dead Sea.

5 Gifts That Will Greatly Bless Your Pastor

Ever wonder what would make the best gifts for pastors? To be a pastor of a local church is a privilege and a high honor, but it’s the hardest work I’ve ever done. Here are 5 ideas for ways you can bless your pastor.

Virtual Mission Field

The Church has entered a new era—a post-Christian, digital age. We should enter the virtual mission field.

How a Pastor Can Feed the Flock Every Day on Social Media

The early believers didn’t rely on a once-a-week sermon. They sat under the apostles’ teaching daily. As a result, the church exploded.

Convenience or Connection: What’s Our Ministry Motivation?

It’s a request I see posted fairly often. It goes something like this: “Looking for a user-friendly curriculum. Video-based preferred. Something easy for volunteers, low-prep and easy-to-follow.”

It’s Time for a Relational Inventory

In taking your own relational inventory, begin with the three basic types of people in your life: those who drain you, those who are neutral and those who put gas in your spiritual tanks.

R.C. Sproul: Biblical Scholasticism

Nothing evokes more snorts from the snouts of anti-rational zealots than appeals to sages from the era of Protestant Scholasticism.

15 Time Management Tips

I make no claim to be an expert at time management. What I am is a seminary dean, education consultant, church consultant, and local church pastor who has been forced to learn how to budget time. Here are some time management tips that have worked for me