Articles for Pastors

I believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the believer’s immersion into the life of the Spirit.

What things do you currently regard as of the absolute essence of church—things without which you could not imagine church being ‘real church’.

What the Church needs today is not junk food, but the kind of food and drink that can truly satisfy hungry and thirsty souls. What the Church needs today is food and drink that comes through the clear, undiluted preaching of the Word of God. Find out more about how to raise up faithful preachers.

He bore all these Pharisaic woes of ours to exhaust [the] curse on the Cross.

Good leaders don’t intentionally frustrate people, but the process of guiding change can (and will) be frustrating at times.

In too many cases, we prepare hard and pray little over our sermons or lessons. For the rest of this week, I challenge you to spend more time praying before you preach or teach.

Can we address God generally in prayer? Should we only pray to the Father in the name of Jesus? Is it right to pray to directly to Jesus? Is it right to pray directly to the Holy Spirit?

We must find hope in the words of Scripture that point to the promise of God’s completed work in us.