Articles for Pastors

The one model of leadership that is often missing is the one that I do feel is the most biblical. Meaning, it’s the idea that seems to reflect the biblical passages on church leadership the most, which makes it all the stranger that it isn’t being talked about more often. It’s leaders as fathers.

If you're a pastor, youth leader or parent, please take youth ministry and teenagers seriously. The right kind of youth ministry is necessary now more than ever.

Sometimes we do the things we hate. And sometimes we get confused and begin to hate ourselves for the things we’ve done. Want to know what Satan loves you to do--over and over and over?

What is legalism? It's not easily detectable, but if you know what to look for, you can usually spot it and root it out.

Most people who are quitting are low-wage workers getting better jobs in industries that are raising wages to get desperately needed new employees. So that part, as Thompson writes, is more accurately a Big Switch than a Big Quit.

Scott Ross, a volunteer fire chaplain in Aurora, Colo., shares what it was like to fight the Marshall Fire and to minister to firefighters in the aftermath.

"While most Americans identify as Christians, they seem confused about the details of their faith."

Nearly every schoolchild can tell you Dr. King “had a dream,” but perhaps only one in ten can articulate that dream.