Pastors

It's important you consider how to treat your pastor. While it's true that God sees us all equally, at the same time, scripture affirms that it matters how we treat those appointed to serve in ministry.

Spirituality can be a cheap substitute for righteousness. Spirituality and piety are not ends in themselves. In fact they are worthless unless they are means to a higher goal. The goal must go beyond spirituality to righteousness.

As I have thought about recent conversations with ministry leaders who I believe think strategically, here are five ways I find them thinking differently.

I have many reasons to thank God when prayers go unanswered. But, those unanswered prayers don’t make life easier for me! If you've ever wondered why didn't God answer my prayer, this is for you.

How strange it is to discover "the Lord is my peace" in an Old Testament book like Judges.

Hillsong UNITED's Taya Smith speaks candidly about worship and being vulnerable before God. In her view, it's the only way to worship.

In short, small churches are not a problem to be fixed, a virtue to be praised or an excuse to do shoddy work. But we are normal. Small churches are still the way most people choose to worship, learn and minister.

A brief telling of how those afflicted saints, young and old, are made to FEEL some of the worst of what a fallen world throws at people, but without FEARING the future because of the perfect love that holds them. I hope that their stories and perspectives offer you similar hope as they do to me.