Articles for Pastors

If you follow this blog, you know I’m in a season of transition again. When I got to my previous church someone on the search team asked me to reflect on how best to finish well. I didn’t know if I was the right one to do it, but I have had some experience ending.

The seven churches mentioned in Revelation are still with us...but in ruins. Here's what those ruins can teach us today.

The apostles did not have formal education, institutional clout or ministerial prominence. But it was obvious that these men had been with Jesus.

Leadership takes courage, and my guess is that some days it feels the cynics and pessimists have sucked almost all the courage and hope out of you.

It's not God's will for you to be a workaholic. Even if you are in ministry.

It is amazing to hear how church members view their tithes and offerings to their local churches. Though it’s cliché to say, the attitudes of their hearts reflect the nature of their contributions to the church.

You've probably sat through more than your fair share of ineffective meetings. Here's how to kill those meeting killers.

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray! I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor those who explain prayer; but I mean those who actually take the time to pray.