Someone once said, “Bitterness is the poisonous pill we swallow, hoping it will kill someone else.” This statement has profoundly influenced me to battle bitterness because I have seen the potential for its destructive influence in my life and those I shepherd. So how do you battle bitterness biblically?
Battling Bitterness in Church Conflict with Forgiveness
Depression in the Christian Family
Many godly, Christ-centered homes struggle with clinical depression. Here’s one family’s story.
The Sign of Pastoral Success
Church attendance numbers matter. But they don’t determine success. Faithfulness does. Let us be faithful, my fellow pastor, by His grace and for His glory. And let’s remind ourselves frequently that success is being a faithful steward of what God has entrusted to us, in good times and bad.
Let’s Help Our Kids Manage Money Well
“As a young person, I didn’t realize the impact that early financial habits would have on my future,” says the author in this book excerpt. Join him on a journey of personal discovery and learn about practical and biblical lessons for wise money management.
5 Ways to Strengthen Your Preaching
No preacher ever “arrives.” If a preacher ever believes he has mastered the craft and can push cruise control and glide along, he is in a dangerous place. I am confident, however, that you desire to improve your preaching and are earnest to do so. Here are 5 ways to strengthen your preaching.
Find Peace in a Culture of Anxiety
How to cope with anxiety about school shootings and other traumatic events
Leaving False Guilt Behind
Jesus wants to free us from excessive self-scrutiny, from false accusations that hover over us and haunt our fragile, tender hearts. Fix your eyes on Jesus. Do what you can and leave it with him.
Is ‘Overwhelm’ Hurting Your Marriage?
Insidious, overwhelm is the urgent that competes with – and often wins – in the daily war between the important and the urgent.
The Pastor’s Essential Library: Surviving the Fishbowl: Letters to Pastors’ Kids
Pastors’ kids have it hard, feeling the weight of undue expectations and the observing world around them.
Matching Spiritual Truths with the Gift of Music
Designed by God and gifted to mankind, the wonder and beauty of music is that it affords us some remarkable contrasts in corporate worship. May Christ give us the wisdom to match spiritual truths with the gift of music so that we might sing songs of biblical faithfulness and beauty for the good of His church and to the praise of His glory.