Showing posts with label Pastors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pastors. Show all posts
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Biblical Guidelines for the Church: Authority and Accountability

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                                                         Leadership and Authority Leadership in the church is not based upon power, but upon...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Ministry Made Simple

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  The task of spiritual leadership may not be easy, but neither is it complicated. When God called us to serve as leaders in the church, He ...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Spiritual Leadership

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  Spiritual leadership without character is only religious activity, possible religious business or, even worse, hypocrisy...... The qualifi...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Pastoral Leadership

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But  we proved  to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.  Having so fond an affection for you, we w...
Friday, November 03, 2023

The Measure of a Church

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The measure of a church is the measure of its people. As its people go, so goes the church. What is it that we as a people of God must posse...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Truth--The Responsibility of the Pulpit

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Truth, by its very nature, is confrontational. It is such because it is absolute and concrete. Therefore it is unassailable, unshakable, unr...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

A Pastoral Prayer for Sunday

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  Lord, love Your people through our worship. May Your truth be spoken in prayer and praise. Attend Your word to their mind and heart; And m...
Friday, October 20, 2023

We Should Strive to be Faithful

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In our roles as pastors/spiritual leaders we should strive to be faithful, not seek to be famous . There is a striving, a working, even an a...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Turth, the Great Need of Every Hour in Every Age

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I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar an...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Three Essential Elements of Powerful Persuasive Preaching

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Preaching is both a human task and a Divine event, a combination of man and God delivering the message of God. As preachers we are both bles...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Preaching to True Needs

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 There has been much discussion, both pro and con, concerning preaching to felt needs. As real as the felt needs are, both in the mind of th...
Friday, July 17, 2020

The Value, Benefit, and Necessity of Reminding

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In  Titus 2:15-3:1a , Paul lays out for us several responsibilities for the Pastor in regards to his preaching. All of the verbs here are pr...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

The Pastoral Desire

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The following is an excerpt I ran across from the book Pastoral Ministry, written by members of the Master's Seminary. "Paul int...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Politics and the Pulpit

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I have been very disturbed over the past many months with the number of pastors who have come out in support of, endorsed, or campaigned fo...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Success(?) in Ministry

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We had the great blessing to attend the Shepherd's Conference last week at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. It was a wonderful t...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

God's Glory Made Known

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"...God wishes to to dwell with men, to have His reality and splendor known to them. But this is only possible when they take account ...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

A Prayer for Sunday

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Father, speak Your Word through me this morning. Through Your Word, train, instruct, strengthen, encourage, and correct your people.  ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Measuring Your Ministry

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I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service. I Timothy 1:12 ...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

Persuasive Preaching or Powerful Preaching?

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The word persuade is defined as causing someone to do or believe something. There are many who believe that preaching must be persuasive, a...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Preparing Ourselves for Sunday

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As we prepare for Sunday, let us remember that what we do is important, not because we are doing it, or because it is our ministry...