Articles for Pastors

Discipleship is much easier to preach about than it is to practice. Pastors, like myself, are often more enthusiastic about making disciples than we are about being discipled.

Trustworthy leadership is hard to find. Inside and outside Christianity, men and women with fancy letters behind their names are doing nasty things to innocent people—and children.

What's the difference between regular anger and righteous anger? Even more important, how can we have righteous anger like Jesus?Jesus exemplified righteous anger. Put another way, he would get angry but "sin not."

I began thinking about the visitor that might have been at that church while he was preaching. Bad preaching should break our hearts.

People don’t give to meet needs. They give to fulfill a vision. People give when a big dream captures their imagination.

In the last few years, not only have we lost Eugene Peterson, but also Billy Graham and Dallas Willard among other famous preachers.

When considering the all-day breakfast trend, I see at least five clear lessons that you and I can apply to our churches.

God is love, we’re told in 1 John 4:16, so in some senses it is a defining quality of God. However, this does not minimize His other qualities, and therein lies the problem.