The Pastor's Library Archives

We’ve gotten into the habit of putting our spiritual lives into a box labeled “Sunday Mornings Only!” that gets put back on the shelf the second we...

When the Lord gives you a burden for a cause or a need, it’s your burden. And it’s not transferable.

The unspoken prayer request is often a confession of powerlessness, of vulnerability. God doesn’t despise that, and neither should we.

Here are my observations on how to transform a collection of comatose do-nothings into a thriving, caring, loving church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God gave authority, dominion and power to all men and women when He formed the world. We are created to lead and lead well. So why don't we?

It always breaks my heart to encounter a church that is ready to implode. Frankly, some churches live in that tension continually. Some cultures...

With culture in such a rapid state of flux, with the dominant headline being the increasingly post-Christian nature of our world, many churches are...

You should go, you should send, but remember God is already at work where you are going!

Jesus warns his followers many times in the Bible that they will suffer for their faith and be persecuted. As Christians in the West, it’s tempting...

Churches do programs and ministries which no one will ever partake of except themselves. Then they wonder why so many pews went unfilled.

The anemia of evangelical worship—all the music and energy aside—is directly attributable to the absence of genuine expository preaching.

As followers of Jesus, we’ve been given a simple mission regarding sin: search and destroy. Put it to death.

It’s all right to say "no" to some things. It’s necessary to say "no" to many things so we can say "yes" to the right things.

It is simply impossible for a person to love God, but not worship.

What does it mean that God is love?