Articles for Pastors

How to Find Your Fit: 3 Clues to Your Calling

One key skill separates effective leaders from ineffective ones: the ability to find their fit.

Pastor Porn: 5 Ways the Internet Is Reshaping a Church Leader’s Soul

The explosion of instant media means we now have the ability to instantly compare, grade and measure ourselves against the best communicators and preachers on planet earth.

3 Ways Pastors and Church Leaders Undermine Themselves on Social Media

It makes me sad when I see Christian leaders vying for the attention of people on social media when all they really want to do is make themselves look important.

Time to Change Your Church!

I believe that the local church should be one of the top priorities in believers' lives. And here's another relevant point: The church is dependent on the resources and services of its members.

When the Pastor Receives Criticism

Few things challenge a pastor more than criticism.

Sometimes Pastors Need to Stir the Pot

How often do you stir the pot? It’s a rare church that will give pastors the freedom of the pulpit to preach the word fearlessly, offending people if necessary. Here's why your church should be the exception.

3 Myths of Expository Preaching

Expository preaching is not preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible.

How Pastors Feed the Sacred Secular Divide

There is a tendency we have toward viewing "church time" as sacred and "non-church time" as secular.