Pastoral burnout is not something foreign to many pastors. How do pastors prevent burnout? This article offers seven keys leading to preventing burnout.

This article offers wisdom for a pastor in the first year of his ministry: spend time getting to know the flock, do not try and change things, work hard at preaching and teaching, pray for God's help and be patient, and work on being healthy.

What is the antidote for pastoral burnout, breakdown, or even a crash? It is the soul-care garage with its seven service bays. This article discusses the first two service bays: routine and relaxation time.

How should pastors deal with their weaknesses in ministry? This article suggests developing one's strengths, and learning to use these strengths in roles where one is weak.

As a pastor, you want to serve God's people well. Are you aware of the three ministry temptations that come with this desire of serving? It is the temptation to be the know-it-all, fix-it-all, and be-everywhere pastor. It is the temptation to ignore your limitations. This article explains how accepting your limitations can be of great benefit to your church. Let it help you figure out your limitations.

This article lists fifteen reasons why a minister needs to make time for pastoral visits.

What is the work of the pastor? This article maintains that a fundamental aspect of the work of the minister is teaching doctrine (1 Timothy 4:13). The author describes what it means to teach doctrine and what this teaching should look like. In order to fulfill this task, the pastor must also value reading.

In what ways are pastors to help in building the church? This article considers three responsibilities of pastors in working for the benefit of the church.

Listening is a required skill in pastoral ministry. However, at times you have to turn a deaf ear. Here are ten things to which you should not give your ear in pastoral ministry.

Are you as a church leader struggling to find time to pray? Here are nine ways of praying more that you as a leader can consider.

If you are trying to work on the growth of the church, this article points out ten leadership mistakes that pastors often make in such scenarios.

Are you planning to leave the ministry? Do not take the decision to leave the ministry without asking yourself these nine questions.

As a pastor, you are responsible to lead laypeople. Here are nine things you need to know about leading laypeople in your church.

This article explains five reasons why some pastors are loners in the ministry, and why that is not good.

There are times where you need to give an apology as a pastor. How do you make a pastoral apology? There are three things to consider in making a pastoral apology.

Shepherding God's people includes persuading them to pursue holiness. This article explains that sanctification can be seen in the church when believers are pointed in the right direction and their identity made clear.

Pastoral ministry is measured by the faithfulness of the pastor. How do you foster faithfulness in ministry? This article mentions three healthy fears that a pastor should develop.

Prayer is essential to the life and ministry of the pastor. What is it that should motivate the prayers of the pastor? This article offers such four motives.

Every pastor wants to build a successful ministry. This article explains what success in ministry is, according to Scripture: depending on the powerful work of the Holy Spirit.

If sacrifice is a way of life for the Christian, then it means pastoral ministry is a sacrificial ministry. This article explains what such a ministry looks like.

This article considers ten things that the apostle Paul prayed for the church. These are then worth reflecting on by today's pastors, as possible ways to shape their prayers for believers?

For pastors it can be easy to confuse success in ministry with God's endorsement of his life. This article explains the difference, and offers questions to help the pastor reflect on how he views himself and his ministry.

This article discusses the biblical image of the pastor as a watchman. From this it shows the responsibility of today's pastor to act as watchman, by delivering God's Word to his people and keeping watch over their souls.

The nature of a pastor's work often means he needs to be strategic about making time to continue learning. This article offers five practical ways to continue to grow theologically in the ministry.

What are ways your ministry can equip parents with what they need to lead their families? This article suggests a number of tools helpful in this regard, including resource lists made readily available for parents.

This article prompts pastors to consider their motivations behind refuting error in the church.

What is at the heart of a pastor's calling? As a theologian, he does not teach simply what the church has historically believed, but he teaches out of his personal theological convictions. This article explains that a pastor's personal confession is intertwined with his own theology.

This article emphasizes the responsibility of the pastor to teach and preach, and to be clear, specific, systematic, and comprehensive in doing so.

This article directs preachers on how to cultivate among the congregation a Berean mindset toward the Scriptures: model the mindset in the pulpit, teach the basics, and humbly accept questions and criticism.

This article discusses the responsibility of the minister to serve, and it does so by showing five parallels between the minister and a waiter.

This article discusses how the way in which a pastor schedules his work week is a reflection of his theology and priorities, and it reflects on his family. The author goes on to give several suggestions aimed at encouraging the pastor's heart during the week.

This article provides four ways that pastors can help difficult church members in their walk with Christ: listen well, admonish with love, encourage with perseverance, and strengthen with patience.

This article underlines the importance of pastors praying for their congregation. It looks at various Scripture passage in its consideration of how pastors should pray.

Discouragement in ministry is a reality for many pastors. How do you overcome discouragement? The article highlights three things to remember: your sanctification, your insufficiency, and the call to faithfulness.

It is the desire of every pastor to cultivate a culture of evangelism in the church. Do you know how to do that? This article shares six ways that can direct your church to a culture of evangelism.

Being a new pastor or an inexperienced pastor in a church can be challenging. Where do you start and how should you approach your work? This article offers ten suggestions you may consider helpful.

What is the difference between preaching and teaching? This article offers six differences.

What is the treatment for ministry weariness? This article suggests three things: eat, sleep, and have time with the Lord.

This article outlines three benefits that come from the pastoral work of visiting the sick: God calls us to be servants of his people, we become reminded of the frailty of our own lives, and we realize afresh that we are entirely dependent on the Lord.

What are leadership principles that a pastor should consider in order to prosper in the ministry? This article offers several insights, particularly on the selection and development of leaders, the matter of self-examination and keeping perspective, and the way to lead through conflicts.

Reading should be part of a pastor's life. How can a pastor create an appetite for reading? This article offers twenty tips.

Reading is part of a pastor's life; actually, a pastor must be a reader. However, is there a time when a pastor may decide not to read books? Reading books, even good books is not always ideal. Why? Here are six reasons you may need to consider.

Reading is essential to pastoral ministry. To the pastor, reading is the door, and texts are the workmen through which the furniture of ideas enters the mind and organizes a pastor’s ministry. This article explains the reasons for reading and the categories that can be used to structure the pastor's reading.

Why is writing good for every pastor? This article gives five reasons.

Why do pastors quit? Conflict, discouragement, suffering, burnout, cares of the world, loneliness, and moral failure are the reasons for leaving the ministry. This article not only explains them, but also gives encouragement to young pastors and aspiring seminarians.

Should a pastor handle church finances? It will be best if the pastor has minimal involvement in the administration of church finances. This article gives six guidelines for the relationship between the pastor and his congregation's finances.

Do you enjoy being a pastor? There are thirty reasons that make pastoral work great, and this article unpacks them.

The pastorate can be a place for lazy people to hide. This article discusses how many hours a pastor should work. It makes a call to discover how to work hard, but also how to love our families.

This article shows from the teaching of Paul (2 Corinthians) and Christ that success in ministry is measured not by numbers but by sounding the voice of the Shepherd in the gospel message, and calling his sheep who know that voice into his fold.

Just like Timothy who was commanded to do the work of an evangelist, pastors must also do evangelism. How do they do that? This article suggests four ways in which pastors must carry out this work, starting with themselves.

How can you avoid pastoral burnout? This article offers some practical things you can do.

How can you avoid pastoral burnout? This article calls you to know how to budget your time in relation to your responsibilities, in order to guard you against burnout.

How can you avoid pastoral burnout? Know the stages that lead to burnout. This article explains seven of those stages.

As a pastor you can use social media to build up your church. This article points to ten ways you can use social media for your church.

Perhaps the challenge in your pastoral work is not your workload but the way you do your work. Changing the way you do your work can increase your productivity. This article suggests three ways to bring out change and be a productive pastor.

This article explains that if you are attempting to minister with a celebrity-pastor conscience, or you forget you are finite, or working as if the results were your responsibility, then pastoral burnout is looming.

What should be the personal priorities of a pastor? This article suggests three, the first of which is to make sure you are a Christian.

How can you be an organized pastor? There are tools that can be helpful for the pastor to get organized. This article discusses five.

Do you want to be a productive pastor? What does productivity mean? It means to adopt the pattern modelled by God in creation.

If polemics is the defence of the truth with the objective of refuting error, then polemics should be part of the calling of the minister. This article gives biblical ground for this call.

This article presents John Calvin's understanding of the role of the pastor. It also points out that the pastor may not stand in the way of Christ alone having the dominion in his church.

This article offers an thorough answer to the question, "Whom does the pastor shepherd?"

With Psalm 23 as its framework, this article reflects on the work of the pastor.

Pastors are not CEOs or priests. According to 1 Peter 5:1-5 pastors are placed in the church to be shepherds of God's people.

Looking at 1 Timothy 4:16, this article shows how the pastor should set priorities in his life.

This article is about the minister's task of preaching. The desire and motivation for preaching, and the importance of this task is discussed in this article.

What is the work of the pastor? His work is not to appeal to the masses but to preach to the remnant.

This article outlines what leadership in ministry should look like, according to 2 Timothy 4. Paul utters the simple charge to preach the Word, from which come six implications of leadership and the preaching of the Word.

How do you organize your prayer life as a pastor? This article suggests seven prayer lists you can use for your pastoral prayer.

There is no church without problem people. How should the pastor deal with such people? This article explains that there would be no place for your ministry if there were no problem people for you to help, and suggests how to care for them.

This article contains a consideration of the two main tasks of the minister of the gospel.

Why and what should ministers read? This article answers, with consideration to 2 Timothy 4:13, where Paul asks Timothy to bring his cloak, books, and parchments.

This article argues that every pastor needs to be a theologian in his work. It explains how the Enlightenment reshaped the pastoral role away from the Christian academy, and then provides three reasons why it is valuable for the church to recover a vision of the pastor-theologian for the local church: it is biblical, historical, and necessary.

This article considers five aspects of pastoral ministry. It states that a pastor needs to watch himself, watch his teaching, preach Jesus Christ, do personal work, and minister to the community.

What will make you a successful pastor? The recipe for success in ministry rests in the condition of your heart—your love for and worship of Christ.

This article discusses the need for the pastor to help the congregation think theologically in order to grow in discernment and discipleship. He himself has to learn to discern the different levels of theological importance of doctrines, in order to give the congregation a sense of priority and discernment in this area.

This article sees hospital visitation or visitation of the sick as a necessary part of the calling of the pastor. In particular, this author calls for an intentional re-orientation in the training of pastors toward a more biblically faithful and vocationally satisfying approach to the visitation of the sick and dying.

This article reflects on the usefulness of Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor to consider the call to the ministry. The article summarizes five admonitions of Baxter into three rules of pastoral practice: active spirituality, pastoral integrity, and pastoral competence.