Articles for Pastors

Why is it that some leaders quit pastoring, even after years of doing so, and move in a completely different direction?

The idea that God is somehow pulling the levers behind the screen of life is what I call Christian fatalism: God is all-powerful. His will cannot be denied. Therefore, everything that happens must have been part of his plan from the beginning. He was behind everything all along.

"Your pastors probably aren’t going to tell you these things."

I love seeing people changed by the love God. But regardless of how much God decides to use me, I alone cannot change people. This is God’s job, not mine.

Thom Rainer talked about seven pastoring mistakes he had made in his ministry. Give him credit, he admitted that if he wrote about all the mistakes he’d made in the Lord’s work, “it would have to be a multi-volume series!”

The reasons why some churches are disengaged with the environment conversation are numerous, and not difficult to guess. For starters, in the United States, environmental dialogue is often characterized as political or controversial.

While there are lots of articles out there on “fallen pastors,” I’ve been surprised to discover few deal with these questions in an in-depth way.

Here are 7 boundaries for pastors to avoid being snared in lust traps.