Articles for Pastors
One Surefire Way to Avoid Criticism
If you’re attracting criticism, it just may be a sign you’re doing something significant.
Articles for Pastors
What I’ve Learned About Ministry: 5 Pastoral Leadership Lessons That Still Shape Me
If you want to learn pastoral leadership lessons, start in your home. Create margins and boundaries so your family knows they are the number-one priority in your life.
Articles for Pastors
20 Pastor Quotes That Will Preach to You First
If you’re a pastor or ministry leader, take time to reflect on these truths. Write the ones that resonate most on your wall, in your journal, or in your sermon prep notes.
Articles for Pastors
10 Christmas Sermon Ideas That Engage and Inspire
With the right approach, your Christmas sermon can rekindle awe, deepen faith, and invite both regulars and newcomers into the story of God’s love made flesh.
Articles for Pastors
Christmas Planning Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Christmas Eve is a powerful and great opportunity for outreach. Don't miss the opportunities.
Articles for Pastors
5 Common Mistakes Pastors Make at Christmas (and How to Avoid Them)
Christmas ministry will always involve hard work and late nights, but it doesn’t have to drain your spirit.
Articles for Pastors
Christmas Preparation for Pastors – 7 Tips
If it's true and Christmas is the new Easter in terms of reaching people who don’t regularly attend church, then our preparing for Christmas must be more intentional than ever.
Articles for Pastors
Why Obedience to God Brings True Freedom and Lasting Joy
The choice to obey may feel like laying something down, but in reality, it is taking hold of the life we were made for.
Articles for Pastors
How Much Vacation Time For a Pastor?
He explained to me the reasons I should be taking every day of vacation the church gives me, which I had never done. Here was the basis for his thoughtful, insightful, and wise argument.
Articles for Pastors
Don’t Wait Until the Teen Years To Talk With Your Kids About Sex. Here’s Why.
When should Christian parents start having conversations with our kids about sex? The answer is, “Probably sooner than you think.”
Articles for Pastors
Letter to a (Real Life) Hurting Pastor
Author Chris Surber suggests six avenues to handle the hurt and disappointment so common in pastoral ministry.
