Articles for Pastors

How to Have a Ministry of Building People

Challenge your members to live beyond themselves and to discover their strengths and abilities.

How to Become a Better Reader

"One of the most frequent questions I get is how to keep up with culture. My stock answer is to read voraciously. Then the follow-up comes: How can I become a better reader?"

5 Honest Struggles Most Church Leaders Don’t Want to Admit

"The good news is that struggling with God is normal. You are not alone."

Homosexuality and the Church Leadership Crisis

Rather than placing impossible demands upon vulnerable people from a comfortable distance, we need to become better missionaries.

Help, I’m the Old Guy on Staff! (How to Manage Millennials With Mercy)

"I'm not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the way, I became the old guy on our church staff."

4 Harmful Impacts of Leaders Who Need to Be Liked

"When someone needs approval from others, the person is willing to sacrifice conviction and do anything to earn that approval."

5 Surprising Discoveries About Growing Churches

It does little good to use membership as a metric in most studies of large numbers of churches.

5 Hurdles Every Executive Pastor Has to Get Over

"Executive pastors are constantly processing managing people, mapping out strategy, ministering to people and a dozen other things all simultaneously."