Articles for Pastors
How to Know If You’re Running on Emotional Fumes (and 4 Shortcuts to Refuel)
If our calendar is consistently crammed, with little-to-no white space to be found, we’re probably running on emotional fumes.
Articles for Pastors
Major New Research on Declining, Plateaued and Growing Churches
70 percent of churches are subtracting/declining or plateauing. Only 30 percent are adding/growing based on Exponential’s categorization of churches which is defined above.
Articles for Pastors
How to Comfort Those Bereaved by Tragedy (A Personal Story)
How to help your people say, “This day is very bad, but You are good” when struck by tragedy.
Articles for Pastors
“Don’t Wrestle With Pigs” (Thoughts on Handling Criticism)
If we are unable to handle criticism, we may want to consider doing something different with our lives.
Articles for Pastors
Preaching Half the Gospel
For many years, we have preached half the gospel by encouraging people to be saved FROM something—namely sin, wrath, damnation and eternal punishment—and neglected the fact that we’re saved for something.
Articles for Pastors
Where Are All the Single Pastors?
It is not ultimately our personal experience that qualifies us to teach into a given situation (though it can undoubtedly help); it is our handling of the Word of God.
Articles for Pastors
The Positive Side of Leading Under Pressure
As I write this, we’re three days from our church’s big Grand Opening at our new location.
Our church is seven years old. We’ve met...
Articles for Pastors
5 Simple Ways to Assess the Effectiveness of Your Leadership
One of the most difficult aspects of leadership is to know how you’re doing as a leader.
Add a little insecurity into the mix, and...