How to Make Your Marriage Your Loudest Gospel Message

Understanding singleness and marriage as callings or vocations must inform our self-understanding and the outworking of our leadership. Our whole life as a leader is to bear witness to God’s love for the world. But we do so in different ways as marrieds or singles. Married couples bear witness to […]


When a Pastor Loses Hope

I had been a pastor for ten years when I realized I didn’t believe in heaven. My mother had died, and the devastation I felt at first was normal, understandable. But then, it hung on, and eventually grew into the dark, clinging despair of depression. I knew I shouldn’t feel […]


How to Identify Future Pastors (and Deliver Hands-on Training)

Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesian church that God gives some men to the church who are apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors and teachers for the equipping and building up of the church (Ephesians 4:11 – 12). How do you find these men in your own local […]


Leaders, Here’s One Powerful Way to Face Your Shadow

Most leaders search out books on leadership to discover new tools, ideas, or skills. We are charged with the task of knowing what to do next, knowing why it is important, and then bringing the necessary resources to bear to make it happen. Yet the first and most difficult task […]


A Sermon for Busy Pastors: 3 Looks at the Lord’s Supper

May this sermon provide assistance to you as you seek to improve the quality, freshness, and variety of your pulpit ministry. Sermon Title: Three Looks at the Lord’s Supper Text: “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup” [1 […]