Articles for Pastors

We asked pastors around the world a simple question: What books did you read in 2018 that helped you be a better pastor? We’ve...

Idleness by definition is laziness or a lack of action. But what if our busyness is actually idleness? What if our time is sprinkled with lazy, brainless, idle activities?

We can all be guilty of mentally removing ourselves from the church universal or the church local, and throw criticisms toward her. We’ve all done it, and we’ll probably do it again. However, you can’t forget. You’re the church.

Chances are good, if we are honest, we have been the the betrayer and the betrayed. It could have been in a business deal, with a family member, or even in a marriage. It might have been a misunderstanding or an intentional act of betrayal, but either way, it still hurt.

I am profoundly sorry for the way the church—and men in the church—have limited the participation, ownership and growth of women.

In this series, certain books will grab a preacher’s attention without much convincing. And then there are books like Amos that often go unnoticed and...

There are times when you’ll lose people because your church didn’t do well at keeping people connected—and these losses hurt because you know you could have done something different.

What Is the Church And why are the reforming markers of the church (preaching and ordinances) so crucial for understanding what the church is? The church...