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- 1. 5 Steps to Lead Strong in 2021
- Welcome to 2021. A few might think, "What's actually different from last week?" A new year is always different. God created life with patterns and rhythms, seasons and days, and newness internally ...
- Created on 08 January 2021
- 2. 4 Types of Families for a Changing Church in 2021
- Welcome to the new year! You made it through 2020 which was, without a doubt, one of the most challenging years for ministry. This time last year you had no idea that you would have to completely reimagine ...
- Created on 08 January 2021
- 3. How God's Strength Will Carry You Through Every Storm
- "We stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead" (2 Cor. 1:9, NLT). God's strength will carry you through every storm. Sometimes we experience storms that push us ...
- Created on 22 December 2020
- 4. 7 Heartfelt Prayers by Pastors for Their Churches for 2021
- I could begin this article with another cliché about 2020, but I won't. Pastors are ready to move forward. Church members are ready to move forward. Indeed, it's time to move forward. In that light, ...
- Created on 14 December 2020
- 5. 5 Action Steps to Lead Your Team When Life Seems out of Control
- More and more leaders quietly express a sense of life being out of control. I think, at some level, we all understand what that means; it's what we do with that thought or feeling that matters: — We ...
- Created on 08 December 2020
- 6. The Catalyst That Saved the Small Church During COVID-19
- COVID-19 changed the ways we were able to engage as pastors with our congregations and communities. Many of us experienced the sudden shift from conducting church in-person with little to no online component ...
- Created on 17 November 2020
- 7. 5 Ways Churches Are Responding to a Second COVID Spike
- Though a number of pundits told us to expect a second COVID spike, we were all hoping it would not happen. In many areas, the spike has happened. We at Church Answers are in constant conversation with ...
- Created on 09 November 2020
- 8. How Leaders Should Handle Loneliness in Ministry
- It doesn't matter how many people you have around you, you can still feel lonely. Pastors know this well. They're around people all the time, visiting families, discipling leaders and making hospital visits. ...
- Created on 04 November 2020
- 9. 5 Ways to Recover From Pastoral Burnout
- Leading a ministry is hard. Leading a ministry through a global pandemic is even harder. As a pastor, God has equipped you with the strength and stamina to lead others towards Him, but there are times ...
- Created on 29 October 2020
- 10. 7 Keys for Turning Darkness Into Destiny
- Everywhere we turn, the atmosphere of life permeates with desperation—in politics, business, airports, homes, yes, even church, and you. It is one week until the U.S. elections, and COVID-19 is like ...
- Created on 27 October 2020
- 11. 10 Suggestions for the Bi-Vocational Pastor
- I spent my first few years of ministry as a bi-vocational pastor. For those who may not know the term, in order to fully support my family, I had to seek other work to supplement my income I received as ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 12. Why Do Many People Despise Preachers in America Today?
- Those who have been called to preach, much like the prophets in the Old Testament, will confront compromise, condemn moral digression and powerfully denounce sin in the hope of reconciling man to God—they ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 13. Is the Church Taming the Holy Spirit?
- Is the church taming the Holy Spirit? I mean this in the classic sense of the word: "Make less powerful and easier to control." It is easy to slip into depersonalizing the third member of the Trinity, ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 14. Georgia Church Hosts COVID-19-Free Sports Camp
- As Americans learn how to live safely during the pandemic, churches are slowly restarting in-person activities with precautions. According to Barna Group, 68% of churches are meeting for in-person worship ...
- Created on 01 October 2020
- 15. 4 Leadership Principles to Make an Impact for Years to Come
- You have three options for what you can do with your life. You can waste it on pursuits that don't matter. You can spend it on making a name for yourself. Or you can invest your life in ways that will ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 16. How Your Church Can Compensate You for Your Hard Work in 2020
- Pastors and ministry leaders may be experiencing the most challenging nine months of their careers right now. As churches navigate COVID-19, our pastors have stepped up and served the front lines as they ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 17. 7 Ways to Befriend Your Neighbor During COVID-19
- Our culture didn't need any assistance in further isolating ourselves, and yet a global pandemic has managed to do just that. Each day we hear stories of people who yearn for community and friendship. ...
- Created on 24 September 2020
- 18. Ministry Leaders, Has Your Message Changed Since COVID-19 Began?
- While we can't be sure of a COVID-19 vaccine delivery date or the best treatment plan start date, for most, our best guess is that we're somewhere at the mid-point of the pandemic. In the worst case, ...
- Created on 16 September 2020
- 19. 4 Reasons Your Church Has Lost Volunteers After COVID-19
- One of the most common challenges we are hearing from church leaders is the unexpected loss of volunteers. It is always a challenge to get and keep volunteers, but the problem seems exacerbated since the ...
- Created on 14 September 2020
- 20. 7 Sentences You Never Expected to Hear in Churches in 2020
- I can only imagine how we would have responded in 2019 if someone had told us we needed to be prepared not to gather for in-person worship services for several months in 2020. Indeed, if we had been ...
- Created on 10 September 2020
