Pastors

It’s common to hear advice encouraging parents to want more for their children than “just happiness.” While such advice is meant well, we need to address the concept of happiness carefully when it comes to our kids.

Awareness of how people’s brains work in response to change can help you craft more lasting changes. Here are eight reasons why church change is difficult.

What are some of the practices that we can embrace as ministry leaders that will help sustain our joy through both the highs and lows of ministry? Join Dave Ferguson for a candid, backstage conversation.

The church is still the hope of the world, but we have work to do. Of course, we do; we’ve had stuff to work on since the early New Testament Church! Here are five signs your church is spiritually healthy.

A preacher eater church has a series of short-term pastors, and those departing pastors have few positive words to say about them. As my pastor friend noted, “That church will eat you alive.”

There’s a not-so-subtle distinction between being a genuinely prophetic voice and being divisive and problematic.

The first Jewish rabbi to call God “Father” directly was Jesus of Nazareth. It was a radical departure from tradition, and in fact, in every recorded prayer we have from the lips of Jesus save one, He calls God “Father.”

Encouragement comes from knowing that even the greatest heroes of faith were also flawed and broken—wrecked, weary, restless, and sometimes tortured sinners—even at their spiritual peak.