Jun 10, 2020 | Church Matters, Current Events, Personal Development, Perspectives
Pastor Resources · Adaptation Chapter 3 In my experiences with racial reconciliation conversations, there usually comes a moment when superficial talk gets real. Often this comes about because a person of color takes the risk to share how racism and white...
Jun 9, 2020 | Personal Development, Perspectives
Pastor Resources · Learning To Read The Bible When I was young, I had a soccer coach who told me I didn’t know how to run—and that he was going to teach me. His statement made me mad. I actually didn’t like my coach too much; I thought he was kind of overweight for...
Jun 5, 2020 | Church Matters, Personal Development
Pastor Resources · An unusual practice to make you into a Godly leader Four hundred years before Israel ever had a king, God gave Moses a spiritual practice that would transform the life of the king and the people he served. The practice is described in Deuteronomy...
Jun 3, 2020 | Church Matters, Pastor's Life
Pastor Resources · The Healthy Church Log One of the biggest challenges for any church is to figure out how to measure healthfulness. The usual default is to count attendance figures. But the number of church attenders was never the best measure of church...
Jun 2, 2020 | Covid 19, Current Events, Respond to latest issue
Pastor Resources · Financial Decisions Pastors Need To Make During COVID – 19 Shutdowns With the novel coronavirus shutting down nearly every church in the country, pastors are facing difficult financial challenges. Congregants may be giving less during...
Jun 1, 2020 | Church Matters, Editor's Pick, Featured
Pastor Resources · Left Behond By A Prodigal Child There has been much written about the exodus of Millennials from the church. But I haven’t seen much discussion about the effect of that exodus on those they’ve left behind; specifically, the parents who sought to...
May 29, 2020 | Covid 19, Current Events
Pastor Resources · 10 Ways To Bond As A Family None of us really expected that we would be indoors together, not really having human contact with other people and it can be really hard, for so many reasons. It’s easy to go to social media and vent about how...
May 28, 2020 | Covid 19, Current Events, Inspiration, Personal Development, Podcast
Pastor Resources · Christian Educators, We Are Called to Such a Time as This With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world as we know it has turned upside down in just a matter of weeks, leaving educators across the country scrambling to provide content and...