Articles for Pastors

I urge pastors to take an hour occasionally to sit in the periodicals section of their public library and browse all those magazines no one has never heard of.

There are definitely a few dos and don’ts. I’ve listed below some essentials of a great ministry resume.

The memorable discovery was not that I, with my bad memory, surprisingly could memorize big chunks of Scripture, but that doing so yielded joy. The exercise, the discipline, of reciting and repeating forced me to meditate on Scripture in ways I hadn’t done before.

If we want constructive criticism, we can’t just be open to it. We have to ask to get feedback. And we have to ask regularly and honestly.

As a pastor to pastors, these four questions about parenting PKs are the ones Janet and I get the most at conferences and date nights.

Why did my to-do list get that bloated? Any time I thought of something that I should do, I’d add it to my list. This quickly escalated into a problem.

We need to stop enabling abusive Christian men. Christian leaders and friends, we have to see that some evil men are using their wives’ Christian guilt and our teaching about the sanctity of marriage as a weapon to keep harming them.

Jesus had some hard sayings. He made some statements that befuddled His hearers then and now provoke modern disciples to scratch their heads. Let's face it--some of what He said is just plain difficult to swallow.