Articles for Pastors

Summer Church Experiments - Rather than looking for the “perfect” strategy for your church, it’s better to consider your practices as a series of experiments with changes in the church and then watch the results.

Right now, we’re in-between pre-COVID-19 and post-COVID-19. What if God is using this time to prepare us for greater impact and purpose?

my assessment of the current experience of pastoring is consistent with what I have heard from others: Pastoring is hard.

I was envious of the freedom they were evidently experiencing. They were not carrying the weight of the world, burdens they did not need to carry.

Are you in a period of no “altars” or “sacrifices” to the Lord? Has your slavery to sin kept you from drawing near to God?

David Cassidy longed to be known and accepted by his earthly father. It doesn't appear he was granted either of those things. Perhaps a relationship with the heavenly Father could have saved him the heartache he suffered.

As the pandemic wanes, people aren't coming back to church. As far as I can tell, they divide into two separate categories.

We tend to despise pride in others and we recognize its destructive power. The Scripture teaches us that pride goes before destruction and haughty...