Articles for Pastors

Although there are true blessings for pastors that serve four years or less, there are other blessings that really begin to accumulate after five years.

Every leader needs the blessing of positive criticism from the ranks of the membership or team or congregation.

Every pastor and church leader feels them at some level, and if you look at the issues they cause inside us, around us and in our churches, it’s troubling.

No church wants to make a bad hire, but many do. Sometimes that happens despite search teams, elders, etc., doing their job well—but it also happens because the team ignores some warning signals.

Pastors set the tone in our churches, and sometimes our tone is terrible.

One of the greatest challenges of a leader is to make people decisions.

All pastors get hateful email. Most are easy to ignore and delete. But what do you do with the rest?

Everyone likes to think of themselves as leadership material. To be a follower is not glamorous.