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- 1. How to Deal With the Most Difficult Person in Your Church
- Why should I be grateful when things aren't going to suit me? The woman "stood behind Him at His feet, weeping, and began to wash His feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed ...
- Created on 20 November 2019
- 2. One Sign You're Doing Good Work as a Leader
- Do you want to know one sign you're actually doing well as a leader? It's not foolproof, but it's pretty telling—in my experience. You'll know you're doing good work when ... people oppose you! And I think ...
- Created on 12 November 2019
- 3. 5 Tips on How to Say No in a Positive Way
- It's never fun to tell someone no, even when you know it's best. If you are like the vast majority of leaders in ministry, you love people. You want to help and empower others, but more often than we prefer, ...
- Created on 12 November 2019
- 4. 7 Common Tensions Leaders Face Every Day
- Being a leader isn't easy. With every decision a leader makes, someone is happy—and someone is not. One often misunderstood reason leadership is challenging is the tension every leader feels when making ...
- Created on 22 October 2019
- 5. Why Perfect Churches Simply Don't Exist
- A young pastor sent me a question. Two churches had contacted him about their search for a new shepherd. Both are in the same general area, both about the same size, and, in his words, "both have issues." ...
- Created on 18 October 2019
- 6. Leadership Comes With a Price—Are You Willing to Pay It?
- Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island off the coast of South Africa. For those long years, he broke rocks, did hard labor, was beaten and had no privileges. Mandela's future ...
- Created on 04 October 2019
- 7. 10 Habits Young Pastors Should Avoid
- Though I'm still on a pastoral staff, I'm no longer serving as a full-time pastor. I suspect that distance now makes me more willing to critique my 14 years as a senior pastor, beginning as a 20-year-old ...
- Created on 02 October 2019
- 8. Why Daniel Is a Great Model For Pastors in a Crisis
- Every crisis is a leadership opportunity. As a pastor, you minister to people in crisis all the time. It could be a health, relational or professional crisis. It could even be a crisis born out of a natural ...
- Created on 02 October 2019
- 9. What a Good Church Does for a Lonely Christian
- Robert Caro had a problem. He was researching and writing an in-depth biography of Robert Moses, the highly acclaimed "master builder" of New York City, who lived 1888 to 1981. Originally, Caro thought ...
- Created on 17 September 2019
- 10. Are You Digging Yourself Into a Hole When You Preach?
- The preacher begins his sermon with several minutes of foolishness. He sees a friend in the congregation, remembers a silly story about the two of them and goofs off for five minutes. Five golden minutes ...
- Created on 14 August 2019
- 11. 8 Reasons Pastors Get Fired
- Over the past several years, I've paid more attention to reasons pastors—including some of my acquaintances and former students—have been fired. In some cases, the congregation has been a "knucklehead" ...
- Created on 09 August 2019
- 12. What to Do When Someone Criticizes Your Preaching
- They criticized Paul's preaching, if you can believe that. They said, "He writes these fearsome letters, but his preaching is terrible." Well, OK, what they said was: "His letters ... are weighty and powerful, ...
- Created on 05 August 2019
- 13. 7 Key Questions About Your Church Vision
- Would you like to have a vision for your church that brings meaning, momentum, fruit and growth? It's possible—and likely—for you to see the fruit that comes when your church is united behind a compelling ...
- Created on 30 July 2019
- 14. 12 Distractions That Can Disrupt Worship Services
- Worship is frequently a controversial topic, and it's not my goal to add to those debates. Based on my work as a church consultant, reports from our consultation "secret shoppers," interviews with church ...
- Created on 29 July 2019
- 15. 7 Reasons We Need to Move Beyond the Church Size Debate
- Anytime I write about anything dealing with church sizes, some of the discussion degenerates into a debate about the best size church. It happened last week when I wrote some positive words about smaller ...
- Created on 18 July 2019
- 16. What to Do When Everything Around You Is Falling Apart
- Sometimes, everything around you seems to be falling apart. The markets are down and retirement looks bleak. You can't seem to communicate with your spouse. Recent news from the doctor has you shaken. ...
- Created on 14 January 2019
- 17. Can't Face Yet Another Spiritual Battle? Take a Lesson From Gideon
- Gideon was an ordinary man chosen by God for extraordinary exploits. He was taught, as all of us are, not to depend upon our own strength or upon our own talent but to totally trust in the Lord in all ...
- Created on 19 July 2018
- 18. 5 Tested Truths for When Your Dreams Die
- Each of us has had dreams that have died. In the aftermath, you've probably wondered, "Where is God? And can He resurrect this mess?" You're not alone! Every believer I know has faced a crisis that has ...
- Created on 12 March 2018
- 19. 9 Churches Burned to the Ground in New Wave of Attacks
- In Nigeria, a new wave of attacks has seen dozens killed in Christian communities across the country. The violence has hit the northeastern state of Adamawa, one of the most affected by Boko Haram, and ...
- Created on 13 February 2018
- 20. The 100 Largest Churches in America Refuse to Violate God's Word on This Hot-Button Issue
- Liberal theology doesn't draw a crowd. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stonestreet with The Point. A recent survey by LGBT advocacy group Church Clarity found that none of the 100 largest churches in America ...
- Created on 18 January 2018
