Articles for Pastors

Misconceptions About Pastors' Wives - Although you and your husband are one flesh, you are not the same person. The way God made you is different than how he made your husband. God knew what he was doing in putting the two of you together. He doesn’t make mistakes.

I believe in prayer--or do I? Maybe not. It's Simple. Because I don't pray. If I really believed in the kind of prayer Jesus spoke of, you would have to consistently pull me off my knees by my dreads. But I'm a pastor.

Are you a thinking leader? When our thinking centers control, we can dampen the emotional center’s power and lead more effectively. Here’s what we learn about Nehemiah’s thinking.

For many churches, choosing a program or ministry name is haphazard and unintentional. Instead, use these 3 pointers to select your next ministry name.

In my teaching ministry I often think back to it when preparing for a message. Here is the one thing that helped me most in my teaching classes: Hook, Book, Look, Took.

Clearly as Christians we do not want our politics to become our religion. We want to engage politically because we care for our country, because we pray for our leaders, and because we know the policies that are set impact people and the places we live and love.

The utter pervasiveness of evil is why Easter is such a precious holiday. Easter isn’t about candy, Sunday dresses, ham dinners, or Easter egg hunts — there's Good News in understanding Easter and spiritual warfare.

I wish I could say I’ve not seen this before. But our congregation is rife with these stories of people who dealt with a toxic church.