Articles for Pastors

You won’t find hurry sickness listed in any scientific journals or on the “health and activities” part of your weather app. But trust me, it’s everywhere, and it is killing people.

The key to prayer is a heart of dependence. Pray with the holy urgency of one who has a need that only Jesus can meet. These are the marks of effective prayer.

A quick read of USA Today can tell you what America's leaders are talking about.

Embrace your family while you have them. Raising children is a season. It won’t last forever.

I’ve been grateful ever since for this little foretaste of Heaven. In glory, we believe, people will be coming up thanking others for a witness, a prayer, a gift, a sermon, a word of counsel that made an eternity of difference.

When you're lied about, looked down upon, or doubted, the best advice you can follow is to allow time and the consistency of good choices to prove the lies are not true.

Gossip feels exhilarating. Entertaining. Our imaginations take over and we’re intoxicated by the rush. It’s no big deal. Just harmless fun. They deserve it! We shrug it off and steal it from them. We snatch it and never look back. Never break a sweat. Success is ours!

Too often, music pastors seem to feel an obligation to get the crowd motivated to experience the Holy Spirit through the energy of the songs.