Pastors

If you’re the new guy, you’ll be compared to the previous leader.  It’s natural.  And, it’s ok. Everything from your leadership style, personality, to the way you communicate will be stacked up against the previous leader.

I was recently installed as the pastor of New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville. As a church planter, I’ve functioned as the pastor, but the...

If we humbly seek to become more self-aware (for instance, discover our blind spots) we will lead and serve more effectively.

Brady Boyd: "No matter how hard I try, I will always be tempted to measure my success by attendance numbers."

One of the things that I have really enjoyed over the last few months has been the fact that people have time—time to talk, to chat, to catch up. I'm in no hurry to resume life at a breakneck speed.

Before you came to Christ, your life aspirations arose from a wrong way of looking at the world, what the Apostle Peter calls the “desires of your former ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14 CSB).

Short-cuts in exegesis result in a passage idea that does not carry the true content, nor the character, of the passage we claim to be preaching.

We enjoy the preaching. We enjoy praise. We enjoy fellowship. But we do not enjoy this.