Articles for Pastors

Our hope and prayer is that The Church Guide to Coronavirus can help your church develop healthy practices to keep your church attenders safe and to rise up valiantly in these days. The Church Guide to Coronavirus is here to help your church prepare for the potential disruption and gospel opportunities.

We are in “an opportunity season to find new, creative ways to be generous,” says Brad Formsma. There are plenty of ways pastors can encourage churchgoers to be generous, even if they don't have money to give.

My lack of preaching opportunities during the current COVID-19 threat has forced me to evaluate my own heart. Thus, the remaining evidences of preaching idolatry are my own suggestions.

Being small does not mean that something is broken. But if something is broken, you can’t fix it by making it bigger. Bigger fixes nothing. The...

Believe it or not, Charles Spurgeon has many relevant insights for us about entertainment in church. Even though he lived in the 19th century, his day mirrors our day. And he recognized the dangers of the entertainment-driven church.

What are the responsibilities of church membership? In an individualistic and consumeristic culture, the very notion that church members bear significant responsibilities comes as a surprise to some Christians. 

The ancient church sorted through the Trinitarian debate by clarifying the distinction between "essence" and "person." Likewise, the Reformation haggled over the proper meaning of "righteousness" and "justification." And today we need to distinguish between desire and temptation.

Last month, my extended family and I sat with my dying grandmother over her final days. In the waning hours of her life, we...