Pastors

What is hell, and what makes hell hell? For at least three reasons, this sad and ominous reality should produce both grief and motivation.

For a church or house of worship to truly flourish, it needs to maintain independence from government control in certain fundamental areas. There is a legal term for this idea: church autonomy.

After spending months interviewing survivors of sexual abuse within Christian communities, we know that Josh Duggar’s situation is, sadly, not rare.

One of the effects of the past year is an unprecedented number of ministers saying they are considering quitting vocational ministry.

Effective preaching is more than just about what you say. It’s also about how you say it, and not every preach knows how to deliver a sermon.

I’ve been peppered in recent weeks with questions about summer church services and how to address the summer slump in attendance. Here are some ideas:

These tidbits ministers teach may have a sliver of truth in them, but a sliver of truth in a full slice of falsehood is really teaching something that is not reliable.

The fact is, most of the baloney in our lives is what we put there ourselves. Change must come from within.