Articles for Pastors

Toxic People Aren’t Your Fault

If you marry a toxic person and show extraordinary love, concern, care and compassion; if you go out of your way to be a model spouse to a toxic person, that toxic person will still most likely turn on you because that’s what toxic people do.

A Remedy for Controlling Personalities (Like Mine)

In an effort to be controlling, we lose control. In an effort to make people better according to our definition of better, we make people feel worse.

8 Characteristics of ‘The Best Leaders I’ve Known’, According to Incarcerated Men

This list created by incarcerated men, talks about the 8 Characteristics that make up the very best leaders.

Hounded by Hesed

We may be in despair, debilitated, distressed, distracted or even facing death but nothing can and will separate us from the love of God.

When a Superior Person Struggles With Envy

A person struggles with envy, he is fixated on the gap between himself and the person with whom he compares himself. Such fixation will kill a person.

You Need to Be Inconvenienced for the Church

Let’s boil this down so we can see what's really at stake. Our aversion to being inconvenienced for the church reveals our lack of hunger for Jesus.

Gallup Research: What Keeps People Coming Back to Church Week After Week Isn’t the Cool Music

According to the findings of a Gallup study, the people in our congregations are coming back week after week because of the sermons, and there are a couple key things they are looking for in those sermons.

Some Help for the Boring Adult Sunday School Teacher

Here are three reasons why adult Sunday school teachers of the Bible shouldn’t be boring—and four strategies to avoid boring teaching.