Articles for Pastors

"Burnout, abuse and an unforgiving spirit are the top three by far."

We live in a world where it is easier to both abuse and adore our bodies. The result is a lot of pressure and a lot of shame. Both body abuse and body adoration fail us for these two reasons.

Since we all come with working assumptions that affect interpretation, we ought to try our best to ensure we come with the best assumptions possible.

If your organization is without healthy conflict, your organization is not at its best.

Certainly delivering public messages is what preachers in training want to learn. But there is also what we might call the "back side" that cannot be neglected in considering the preaching ministry.

People are not looking for something else to give to or something else to do. They are looking for something worth their time, money and effort. Here are 3 ways to ask people to serve or give.

Why did the Lord incite David to take the census, and express anger at him afterwards for doing so? Matthew Henry cites five possible reasons that David's census was wrong.

We also need to know how a story ends; for this we turn to Revelation, the closing act of the biblical drama. In effect, the book of Revelation allows us to peek at the last chapter of human history to see ending of the Bible's grand narrative.