Pastor Blogs

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  How Your Small Group Clique is Destroying Your Pastor Has your small group become a clique? Here are tell-tale signs and the devastating effects these groups can cause--particularly to pastors. Kelly Givens Apr 02, 2015
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  Why Every Christian Needs to Be A Sheepdog Each of us needs to slowly transform ourselves from the prey to the prepared. It’s time for all of us to become sheepdogs. J. Warner Wallace Mar 24, 2015
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  Idolatry in Christian Ministry In this concise one-liner we find one of the most acceptable forms of idolatry in evangelicalism... Matthew Harmon Mar 24, 2015
• 5 Types of Preaching As a pastor, I need to evaluate my own heart and preparedness for the moment of the sermon. In doing so, I’ve come up with five generalized styles of preaching: four of which need to be guarded against and... Philip Nation Mar 24, 2015
• 10 Ways to Tell You Have Arrived as a Big-Shot Preacher What we are attempting to do here is walk a fine line between the fun of humor and exaggeration and the conviction of truth and righteousness... Joe McKeever Mar 19, 2015
• Do I Answer a Fool? Or Do I Not? In Proverbs 26:4 we are commanded not to answer a fool, but in the very next verse we’re commanded to answer a fool. So do I or do I not answer a fool? This raises a larger issue about how to apply the... Theologically Driven Mar 19, 2015
• Vetting Staff One of the most frequent questions I get from fellow pastors has to do with hiring (and firing) staff. As in how do you know who to hire? When do you know it’s time to let someone go? How do you evaluate... Dr. James Emery White Mar 19, 2015
• 5 Reasons a Church Stops Growing I was talking with a church recently that had explosive growth, but things have slowed. They wanted to know why they were not growing any longer. In my experience, the are some common variables when growth... Ron Edmondson Mar 19, 2015
• A Samaritan Village: Let Go and Move On God can deal with our enemies better than we can. Dr. Ray Pritchard Mar 19, 2015
• 9 Signs Your Church May be Unhealthy What are the indicators of an unhealthy church? Here are a few sure signs to be watchful for when it comes to unhealthy church bodies. Kelly Givens Mar 12, 2015
• How to Make Your Church a Safe Place for Sinners Would a homosexual or bulimic or cutter or high-functioning pain-killer addict feel comfortable talking about their battles in our churches? I suspect that in many cases, the answer is “no.” This shouldn’t... Stephen Altrogge Mar 12, 2015
• What Weddings Should a Pastor Perform? I am consistently asked about the circumstances surrounding weddings. What makes it permissible or not to conduct a wedding in ”this or that” situation? Brian Croft Mar 12, 2015