Pastoring is a hard job. There are unique challenges that come both personally and professionally. The Focused Pastor exists to come alongside pastors, their families, and the church with resources to encourage and equip them personally and to do their ministry more effectively. With biblically based content that is informed by pastoral research, we create resources that address these unique topics. The Focused Pastor seeks to encourage pastors and church leaders to be spiritually healthy and effective in their homes and in their roles.
Every pastor knows what it’s like to be criticized. But how does he respond? And how does he offer constructive criticism of his own?
In Faith in a Secular Age, Dr. Andrew Root helps readers understand why deeply rooted faith is a difficult thing to come by in our local church context. Root helps us to consider what faith is, what steps we can take to move into that faith, and connects faith with a Divine action that we can grasp onto for a fuller understanding of what faith is and what it does in our lives.
Our words can be a powerful tool. With them, we can build up each other or tear another down.
Money issues consistently ranks at the top of all relational strife. Pastor Tommy Brown has developed a lens by which we can see how various personalities in the Bible fit with the way we steward our own finances.
If you want to care for others effectively without losing your mind, decide right now that your own times of Sabbath rest are going to be inviolable.
A pastors calendar is always full. How can this leader find time with his leadership for things like prayer, study, and confession? More importantly, how can he or she find time to do this in their own lives?
Because of the widespread availability of sex, the value placed on it by the culture has gone down significantly. Can this be reversed?
The Third Option sets the stage as Pastor Miles takes you through three transformational sections of his book: Me, You, and We. Throughout the book, Pastor Miles shows how the third option, God’s way, will lead this broken country toward racial unity
Even after hours of training, grief can be a difficult situation to approach. Whether it’s grief on a national level or something a little closer to home, your congregation is looking to you for hope in the midst of their grieving.
Join renowned teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan as he guides you through the ancient city of Rome. Follow the rabbi through the ruins, as the crucifixion of Jesus is unpacked through the eyes of a first century Roman audience.
God gets glory from his creatures in worship by our knowing him truly, and by our enjoying him duly. Where knowledge of God is defective, his glory will be diminished in our defective knowing. Where delight in God is restrained or hindered or discouraged, his glory will be diminished in our diminished enjoyment.
