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Pastor to Pastor: 10 Reasons I Appreciate You

I admit my bias here. I’m a pastor. So, when I write about how much I appreciate pastors, […]

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25 Ways to Show Gratitude to Your Pastor for Pastor Appreciation Month

I love pastors. Their ministries over the years have changed my life. Here are some ways to show […]

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10 Questions to Ask Yourself if You’re a Leader in a Church that Needs Revitalization

If you’re leading a church in a tough revitalization effort, these questions are designed to help you evaluate your […]

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15 Signs You Might Need a Day Off

Frankly, I’ve met a lot of church leaders who are just weary. If that’s where you are, here […]

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9 Risks of Not Teaching about Spiritual Warfare

When I first started teaching about spiritual warfare more than 20 years ago, few evangelicals were tackling this […]

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12 Questions to Evaluate Your Church’s Culture

Every church has a culture, whether it be positive or negative. The problem, though, is that too few […]

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12 Stages of Pastoral Ministry

Everyone’s story is different, but I’ve worked with enough students and pastors now over two decades to see […]

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10 Ways for Pastors to Express Their Love for Their Congregation

I know some churches are problem churches with difficult people, but I’ve not experienced that kind of church. […]

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8 Important Ways to Prepare for Preaching This Weekend

It’s the middle of the week, but I trust you’re preparing to preach in several days. Apart from […]

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8 Reasons Churches Talk More about the Great Commission than Do It

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15 Reasons People Walk Away From the Church

Most, if not all, of us know someone who attended church but then simply walked away from God’s people. The pandemic, I believe, has only increased that number. Based on my work with churches and the unchurched, here are some of the reasons I’ve heard:

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6 Reasons All of Us, No Matter How Old We Are, Need an Older Mentor

The older I get, the more I recognize that accomplishing what this title suggests is not easy. Eventually, we become one of the very old—and the number of faithful Christ-followers older than we are becomes increasingly hard to find. Nevertheless, I think we should try.

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10 Ways the Church’s Christmas Season Will Be Different this Year

This year has been a stressful one. It seems nothing is normal, and we don’t even know if there will be a new normal. COVID has affected so much of what we do as a church—including our celebrating the Christmas season. Here are some ways I suspect church will be different this year:

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10 Questions to Consider Before Regathering

The possibility of churches gathering again soon has raised several important questions, including: What date should we regather? How do we greet folks from a social distance? How do we take the offering? How will we accommodate our entire church family when we must deal with spacing? Here, though, are some more questions I think we need to ask:

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6 Reasons the Coronavirus Threat Won’t Likely Turn Churches Outwardly—And What We Might Do About It

I read about the hope many of us have that this current global crisis will turn our churches toward the Great Commission, and I genuinely hope that’s the case. I’m convinced, though, that won’t happen apart from an undeniable move of God in our midst.

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