Three Ways to Recharge Your Spiritual Battery

Three Ways to Recharge Your Spiritual Battery

Do you know what it’s like to feel spiritually dry? Do you ever wonder if you’re going through the motions? Maybe you feel as if you’ve stopped moving, spiritually, altogether. We all have times when we need to be refreshed, refueled, and re-energized in our...
Q & A with Joel Smallbone of For King & Country

Q & A with Joel Smallbone of For King & Country

Joel Smallbone of the Grammy and Dove Award-winning For King & Country recently had a conversation with Pastor Resources to share about one of the group’s latest projects the Priceless DVD/Blue-ray release from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The DVD...
Five Ways to Pray When Your Child Goes Astray

Five Ways to Pray When Your Child Goes Astray

How do you trust God and not worry when you see your child start spiraling downward? How can you know when to say something and when to let your child work it out? How can you trust that God ultimately has “good” in mind when it all looks so bad? While...
Top-Five Social Media Tips for Pastors

Top-Five Social Media Tips for Pastors

Many churches are using social media to enhance their ministries. From pastor blog posts and podcasts to Facebook shares and Retweets, social media continues to be a powerful tool for pastors. A January 2017 report from the Pew Research Center revealed that around...
Why Is It So Hard to Pray With My Spouse?

Why Is It So Hard to Pray With My Spouse?

  Admit it. You’d like to be one of those couples that prays together daily, conducts family devotions regularly, and models to others what a spiritual home should look like. But if you’re like us – and most couples we’ve talked to – you’re not quite there. But...
7 Reasons to Trust God in Times of Stress

7 Reasons to Trust God in Times of Stress

When life gets messy, it’s natural for us to get stressed. Or angry. Or bitter. Especially when life takes a turn we didn’t expect – a broken engagement, the loss of a spouse, the diagnosis of cancer, the death of a dream. Sometimes it’s even the...
4 Questionable Practices in Small Groups

4 Questionable Practices in Small Groups

In leading small groups and tracking trends over the last 25 years, I’ve done all kinds of things to recruit leaders and get people connected into groups. Some of those things, I had to apologize for. Others, I simply avoided from the start. While this post is not...