Blog Articles and Resources for Pastors and Church Leaders
Blog Articles and Resources for Pastors and Church Leaders
3 Steps to Access Resurrection Power | Randy Frazee
In 1904, under the authorization of President Theodore Roosevelt, workers removed 3.5 billion cubic feet of earth, including eight miles of mountains, to create the Panama Canal which connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. How did they...
Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body
Learn more about For the Body & get 30% off by clicking here! As Christians, we sometimes feel discouraged and hopeless about the culture around us. Dozens of books have been written about the decline of the church. We may feel like we are just...
9 Points of Christian Unity for our Divided Times
Questions of social justice are not only explosive in today’s culture, they have become highly combustible within many churches around America. Just this morning I spoke with a dear friend whose church on the East Coast is splitting down the middle...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Burdened by the brutality of racism in America, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the microphone near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Most people remember the line from his historic address where...
How to Lead During Christmas Without Losing Your Soul
People say that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. During this time, church leaders may feel far from God because of the many demands and expectations of the season. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Life Today . . . in Light of Tomorrow | Constantine Campbell
Ultimately, life today must be lived in light of the end. Our end is the only way to make sense of life now and the only way to live according to the hope of Christ. Søren Kierkegaard has been paraphrased as saying, Life can only be understood...
Are You Stuck in a Cycle of Unresolved Pain? | Lysa TerKeurst
“ And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life . . . love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. ”—Matthew 5:42, The Message When your heart has been shattered and reshaped...
Get Out of the Office | NT Wright
There is a massive difference between being familiar with something and understanding it. Having an acquaintance and building a deep friendship are radically different experiences. Flying on a plane and being an aeronautical mechanic are not the...
Why God Needed Christmas | Andy Stanley
When the time was fully set, God sent His son, born of a woman, born under the law with a very specific purpose. But why did God send Jesus? Why did God need Christmas? It was to do what laws and regulations could not do. It was to do what judges...
Your Best Days are Just Around the Corner | Dr. David Jeremiah
I’ve lived long enough to learn something: no matter what season of life you’re in, your best and brightest days are just around the corner. That’s not just my opinion and it’s not a pious platitude; it’s biblical truth. When you seek first the...
You Are a Connection with the Sacred for Your Non-Believing Friends | Sam Chan
My friend Craig is a military chaplain. He spent a few years with his unit of soldiers when they were deployed in Afghanistan. There his unit experienced many of the tragedies of war. So he was often called on to conduct funerals, provide...
Adversity Happens in Every Life | Charles F. Stanley
Trials are a fact of life in this fallen world—for both the non-believer and the believer in Christ. Jesus said that God the Father “makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45). He...
Hold That Thought | Levi Lusko
Hold that thought. It’s what you say when someone is telling you a story you want to hear but your phone rings (and it’s your spouse. Pro tip: don’t ignore that one.) Or a work topic, money topic, parenting topic, comes up on date night. It’s...
How to Have a Prayer Meeting | Jim Cymbala
Pastors, we have to remember that the first calling on our lives is not to preach. In Mark 3, Jesus went up on a mountain and called the disciples to himself. He called them by name. That they might be with him, Mark says, “That he might send them...
Awaken to the Wonder of God-With-Us | Scott Erickson
There are many assumptions about the Nativity Story. It’s assumed that Mary rode on a donkey, but it doesn’t say that she did. It’s assumed there was an innkeeper, but it doesn’t mention them anywhere. It’s assumed there were three magi, but it...
Helping Our Churches Love Each Other Through Disagreements | Jared Byas
Throughout my life as a layperson and as a pastor, I’ve been a part of at least 20 churches. And in each one of those experiences, the church was at some point going through a difficult conversation. For some, it was about what kind of music we...
Free Resources
Using How (not) to Save the World with your church or small group?
Here are some tools to help:
The Small Group Tool Kit includes two mobile-friendly invitation cards, reflection cards to enhance your small group experience, and a worship song playlist curated by Hosanna Wong that can beplayed during small group meetings or personal Bible study time.
The Church Tool Kit includes a downloadable poster, bulletininsert, invitation card, and Power Point slide.
Is your church talking about anxiety, depression and mental health issues? You should be.
Shawn Johnson, lead pastor of Red Rocks Church, gives a
searingly honest portrait of anxiety and depression and shows readers how to fight back and live free. He also has put together three free tools pastors can use to help their congregation have a productive conversation around mental health, including a discussion guide, sermon notes and key Scripture verses.