Articles for Pastors

What is gossiping? Gossip is the opposite of the gospel. In the mouth and the ear of a gossip is a morsel of bad news, not the good news.

Before you start, there are some critical things you need to know to be an effective media savvy pastor. Here’s five vital principles as you begin your journey.

Satan tells lies to keep us from praying. He uses pleasures and misinformation and our laziness to keep us from praying. He uses false teachers and busy schedules and great television to keep us from praying.

So here are the 10 things (not necessarily in any particular order) that I thought my new Christian friend should sink down deep into his heart, head and hands as he travels his first year with Jesus.

Is there a secret to a deeper love for Jesus? Let us focus on God’s incredible love for us, and ask him to keep fanning the flame of our love for him. Here is my hope. I don’t love Jesus as much as I should, but I will. Increasingly. For all eternity.

Philip Wagner offers insight into the six major struggles pastors face in the ministry and how to overcome them.

These are five church innovations that I’ve taken note of and that I’m learning from as I think about our ministry.

There are five types of thinkers. Once I know how a guy thinks, I can better challenge him to think through an issue and make a good decision.