Pastors

Everyone who communicates, preaches, or even tries to persuade someone of an idea has discovered that sinking sense that your sermon just isn’t as riveting as it could be. Or that you’re dull. How exactly does that happen?

With July 4 nearing, social media will undoubtedly be set ablaze with images of a few churches filled with American flags, singing patriotic songs instead of worship music, and likely even fireworks or pyrotechnics.

Pelagianism rejects the doctrine of monergistic grace and replaces it with a view of synergism, which involves a work of cooperation between God and man.

I could share many examples, but the point is, whatever wrong, frustration, or offense you’ve experienced shouldn’t become the lens you view everything else through.

Particle board preaching, like particle board furniture, can be made to look attractive from the outside, is affordable, and convinces us that it will get the job done; but it won't have lasting spiritual benefit for the souls of the people who listen to it. It is not preaching that lasts.

Do you tend to see people by their differences or their similarities?

I quickly said “worship is a verb” for a title of the message. Hardly without a thought. This is a big deal with me, I thought. God is working on this in me.

In helping organizations navigate a moral failure, one of the big questions I hear is “What do we do with the decades of books the fallen pastor published, the sermons he preached, or video resources he created?"