In your anxiety, turn to God, remember his faithfulness, cast your anxiety on him, thank him for his love, and find rest for your soul.
Spiritual Disciplines
As all Christians are commanded to bear much fruit, pastors should be concerned with productivity and time management to be fruitful for God.
Brother, don’t let the ministry keep you from Jesus. Spiritual discipline as a means to godliness will help you maintain perseverance and joy in ministry and keep you in Jesus.
Church leaders can speak the truth in love about pornography and offer hope for repentance and restoration.
Stetzer reminds us that we can demonstrate a more excellent sexuality as a missional embodiment of what Jesus desires for all of humankind.
Nick Stumbo shares steps we can take to become places that truly transform the broken sexuality of our congregation and of the world.
True gratitude before God is centered on the gospel from which all the other benefits flow. God-centered gratitude includes more than the gospel, but the gospel is certainly the beginning.
Direct your heart towards God’s gifts so that thanksgiving may overflow to your visitors as you serve them with a thankful heart.
Cultivating a heart tuned to worship God rightly requires that we take a fair inventory of our heart’s emotions in our worship.
Being known by selecting two or three people who aim to build trust with you through asking specific questions is a way for a community to love their pastor, as well as a way for a pastor to love his community.
Lives grind to a halt when people don’t know how to relate to their past. Stephen Viars introduces a third way to view one’s personal history—by exploring the role of the past as God intended.
The church needs to help Christians understand the beauty and power of sex that is so compelling that we would never be satisfied by porn.
Whatever challenges you are facing, whatever questions you are holding, whatever brutality you are grappling with on this fallen planet at this moment, know that you are seen, known, understood, and deeply beloved by God.
Brother pastor, whole-heartedly give yourself to the promotion of the glory of God in all aspects of your ministry. The promotion of God’s glory is correlated to your enjoyment of Him in the process. You and your people need both.
“The pastor’s primary task is to be a praying pastor who facilitates a praying church.”
Prayer is so fundamental to the life of the church that it is not a gift. It’s like breathing. It is not an option; it’s the engine.
By God’s grace, our families and our local churches will be strengthened for generations to come as we intentionally equip and mobilize grandparents for the glory of God.
Suffering puts Christ on display in ways that comfortable living cannot. Enduring pain in ministry makes Jesus shine brighter, which brings more hope to those I serve.
For those who desire a church that sings well, the following suggestions are worth serious consideration.
Title of Book: A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Hope in a Discouraging World Author: Paul E. Miller Publisher: Crossway Books Year: 2023 About the Book: In our current culture, the church and prayer are often dismissed as irrelevant. But when believers gather and pray together, powerful things happen: the Spirit equips the saints …
