Articles for Pastors

4 Aspects of Developing Key Leaders

Pastors, ministry teams, and developing key leaders must work together to create a healthy leadership culture in which ministry teams members partner with staff members to provide intentional leadership over an area of ministry.

7 Signs the Insecure Leader on the Team . . . Is You!

If you live insecure, you’ll die insecure. You don’t outlive insecurity. You outgrow it.

Thanksgiving: the Forgotten Holiday

I call Thanksgiving The Forgotten Holiday. Retailers are so eager to get Christmas sales they overlook it, and worship leaders are so busy preparing for Advent.

13 Thanksgiving Meditations

Slow down! You're probably not scheduled to preach on Thanksgiving Day, so why not enrich your own spiritual life with these Thanksgiving meditations.

20 Scriptural Benedictions You Can Use to Bless Your Church

Benedictions are divine blessings from Scripture pronounced by the minister in order to equip God’s people as He sends them out into the world to live for Christ.

15 Preaching Quotes for Thanksgiving

Good preaching quotes great preachers. How much will you talk about Thanksgiving (or the giving of thanks) from the pulpit this year? 400 years of American history, coupled with the full history of the church worldwide, provides us with plenty of preaching quotes for Thanksgiving.

The Unwritten Pastor Job Description: People Are Counting on You

The reality is if you had your church list five key elements of a pastor job description, you are only gifted at one or two of them.

7 Rules for Great Meetings

I asked a psychologist to help me create some rules for talking in our staff meetings. I call them conversational ethics. Here are the 7 rules for great meetings.

Pastors and Pay: How To Negotiate a Pastor Salary

It seems awfully unspiritual to talk about the pastor salary, especially during the candidating process. But our rejection of greediness does not constitute a vow of poverty. Here are a few thoughts, especially if you’re considering a pastoral transition.

The Faith of the Fatherless

This landmark book was a fascinating study of the role of parents in relation to the absence of faith. It was called "Faith of the Fatherless," and it was about the psychology of atheism.

Pastor, Use This Checklist for Better Preaching

I am not the best preacher on the planet, but I am passionate about better preaching. Here are a few things that I have learned along the way and things that I am currently trying to implement.