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Surviving Your Building Project

The common wisdom is that the tenure for most pastors following a building campaign is eighteen months. For that reason, […]

Everyone is a theologian, but not everyone is a good theologian. Theology is the study of and understanding of God.

Many of you who are reading this just came back from the Southern Baptist Convention where you rubbed shoulders with

Pastors are people of the Book and people of many books. It is unavoidable. But what of these books of

Burnout is a dangerous ditch along the path of pastoral ministry; it should be avoided at all costs. Entire books

I preach 30-40 minutes every Sunday. I spend large swaths of my week preparing sermons that require mental focus for

The most important task of any pastor is to clearly and carefully communicate the Word of God with his people

Seventeen years. That is how long I’ve served in vocational church ministry. That number caught me a bit by surprise

We are saturated with a lack of critical thinking in our culture. The lack of critical thinking and engagement leads

In January I’m beginning a sermon series on the book of Mark, so I have been spending a ton of

So, the church voted unanimously to call you as their new pastor. You’ve been on the job now for six

What is a Pastor? In 1 Peter 5, the apostle Peter shows us that a pastor is a shepherd leader