Articles for Pastors

Even if you’re not in the middle of the battle, constant conflict wears out even the best church members.

We keep forgetting the second commandment is a command. We want our religion to be private, just “me and the Lord.”

The best leadership book is the Bible. If you want to be a great, biblical leader, you should consider Bible memorization.

Leaders often succumb to the temptation to make everything about them. It is about their goals, their career and their recognition. They become a selfish leader.

The leadership will set the tone of the community’s discipleship culture, setting the example of the church body’s “personality.” So whatever you want to see, that is what you must be.

The Bible acknowledges the reality of scarcity, but it re-casts that scarcity in the bigger picture of God’s abundant generosity.

As leaders and pastors we should learn for our own experience with God, and be willing to forge new ways of leading the church.

Disapproval and rejection can sting and wound. We’ve all felt it. What do we do when important people in our lives (or even those that we don’t deem important) reject us? How do we respond as did Jesus when he was rejected and scorned? In this post I unpack this painful thing called rejection.