Articles for Pastors

Every relationship — even a good one — has conflict. If you don’t know how to deal with it, how to resolve it, how to manage it, you can kill your relationship.

The fact is, every generation of Christians sees the rise of voices who claim to know that they are the terminal generation; the generation of Christians which will see the return of Christ. No doubt there will be others come along who whip undiscerning Christians into a fury of misguided expectations.

"Scripture is not describing love only as an emotion. This sort of love is active, voluntary, dynamic—something we do, not something we passively feel."

"At the age of 22, Charles Spurgeon almost quit the ministry."

Learning from the history of SARS and other illness-related quarantines, mental, emotional and relational health will have suffered under the period of social distancing. Here's what church leaders need to know.

How do you weigh the potential health risks of opening against the potential spiritual, psychological and financial risks of staying closed? How do you avoid bad press in all this?

During the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, I read the entire Bible in 5 days to raise funds to equip under-resourced township pastors with copies of the Africa Study Bible.

"When I first understood the Doctrines of Grace (more commonly known as Calvinism and/or Reformed theology), I felt like I had entered The Matrix (minus Keanu Reeves)."