The Pastor's Library Archives

10 Qualities to Look for When Choosing a Church

There are many other amenities people look for in churches, but these are the most important qualities.

10 Qualities to Look for When Choosing a Church

10 Step Checklist for Your Easter Service Preparation

I wish that churches prepared for every weekend like Easter weekend.

10 Step Checklist for Your Easter Service Preparation

20 Reasons Why Your Church May Not Be Growing

I have a conviction. Disagree with it if you want, but I believe it to the core of my being. God wants churches to grow.

20 Reasons Why Your Church May Not Be Growing

Is it Time for You to Quit Being a Pastor?

A pastor MAY resign any time he chooses. A pastor SHOULD resign only when the Lord chooses or if he is forced to do so.

Is it Time for You to Quit Being a Pastor?

3 Reasons Why Christianity Doesn’t Need to be Cool

In our effort to furnish churches with coffee bars and corporate music, we’ve forgotten three, very important reasons why the Church doesn’t need...

3 Reasons Why Christianity Doesn’t Need to be Cool

8 Idols Christian Leaders Worship Today

Our idols these days don’t come as metal cows. They’re much more subtle, but just as destructive. Here are 8 idols church leaders need to watch out...

8 Idols Christian Leaders Worship Today

Are These 7 Sins Really Deadly?

I’ve heard about the seven deadly sins but I’m wondering which sins they are. Why are they more deadly than any other sin?

Are These 7 Sins Really Deadly?

Can God Redeem Sexual Brokenness? A Powerful True Story

How many questions would you want to ask someone miraculously redeemed from layers of painful sexual sin? I had an afternoon with a man willing to...

Can God Redeem Sexual Brokenness? A Powerful True Story

Does God Just Want Me to Be Happy?

Here are some questions that we all must settle for ourselves - Is our happiness really the determining factor for everything? Is happiness really...

Does God Just Want Me to Be Happy?

Books We Lie about Reading

A recent survey by the BBC found that the book most people lied about reading was not Tolstoy’s War and Peace, but Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s...

Books We Lie about Reading

How to Be Happy When Someone Leaves Your Church

I viewed other churches as competitors. If people went to those churches, there’d be less people to come to our church. I’m so glad God rescued me...

How to Be Happy When Someone Leaves Your Church

Read When Discouraged

This is a simple post. When you are discouraged, remember these seven words: There is a God on the loose.

Read When Discouraged

The Library as Armory

From reading we can gain a sense of the currents shaping the world; from reading we can understand the prevailing worldviews assailing...

The Library as Armory

If the Disciples Had a Book Club

Stuck in a rut with your book club? Not sure which Christian book to pick next? Get some inspiration from a few of The Twelve Disciples.

If the Disciples Had a Book Club

3 Reasons to Preach Whole Books of the Bible... Even Hard Ones

This Sunday I begin a new adventure. I am starting a new sermon series preaching through the book of Ezekiel. You read that right! Ezekiel. So,...

3 Reasons to Preach Whole Books of the Bible... Even Hard Ones

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