Articles for Pastors

Providing leadership direction is about trust. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you – no matter how “right” your decisions.

The challenge for us is to be a student of Jesus: to know him, and not settle for knowing about him. He is our teacher; we are his students.

Sin is humanity’s great problem, but a wholesale lack of self-awareness (then other awareness) is a leading contributor to the problems and troubles we create for ourselves.

The reason there are so many books, articles, and blogs on strategic flexibility is because we can’t seem to embrace one simple, two-word concept.

We need more than a theology of God's presence: we need the experience of his presence. He is here, now. Are we awake?

The Catechism states that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, but most of the time, if I’m honest, there has been little to no enjoyment of Him. In fact, in the midst of my porn addiction, there was often no enjoyment of anything at all.

Spiritual formation and discipleship are more like horticulture than education. Good soil brings great harvests. Success in making disciples is not (at first) measured quantitatively, but qualitatively.

Jesus is not a cosmic vending machine where we put in our quarters, hit the correct button, and then enjoy the soda or candy bar we purchased.