Few things about a church leader carry more influence than how he lives his own life. Long before people remember a sermon outline, they remember a leaderq’s […]
Burnout has become one of the most familiar words in ministry. It appears in books, conferences, podcasts, articles, and conversations among pastors and church leaders. Most Christians […]
Imagine a student who attends a history class every week but never opens the textbook, choosing instead to rely entirely on whatever the teacher says during the […]
A pastor stands in front of a congregation and opens with a familiar tone that immediately signals what kind of message this will be. The Bible is […]
There’s a story about a frog and his two crane friends who lived together at a large pond filled with water, fish, plants, and everything they needed. […]
People in emotional or psychological distress often show up in church long before they show up anywhere else. They don’t arrive with labels or clinical language. They […]
On just about any given day throughout all the platforms of social media, you’ll find memes disparaging how we’ve lost the “personal touch” with one another, choosing […]
Is the “evangelical industrial complex” (EIC) real? The phrase sounds like it is describing a tightly coordinated system running American evangelicalism from behind the scenes. That is […]
For many in the church today, the line between biblical stewardship and corporate management has practically disappeared. We are inundated with a relentless stream of secular leadership […]
For at least a couple of decades, the church in America has been suffering from a serious drought of capable and competent Bible teachers within local churches, […]