Preaching with Notes: Yes or No?
Should you use preaching notes or not? This article offers reasons for using notes and for not using notes.
Should you use preaching notes or not? This article offers reasons for using notes and for not using notes.
What causes new pastors to lose their passion? Here are nine reasons.
How should you respond to the pain that God may bring in your life? Consider these nine things when faced with such a reality.
God commands us to be humble. What are the characteristics of a humble person? Here are ten characteristics.
Why is it that some young men who are raised in the church struggle with their church membership? Here are seven reasons contributing to the struggle.
Secret sin eats at us from the inside. This article lists ten things that such sin does to us.
This article lists eight characteristics of an arrogant person.
Have you committed the error of being quick to speak? How can you handle your frustration without sending a regrettable text message? Just ask yourself these ten questions before sending that text or an email message.
As a pastor, how do you handle the pressure of completing a sermon on a Saturday? Here are eight things you can do in dealing with sermon preparation on a Saturday.
Why do pastors think of quitting ministry? Here are twelve reasons for quitting ministry that many pastors give.
Listening well is important for every church leader. If we do not listen well, these ten things happen.
How can you help your church to improve their sermon listening ability? This article offers nine suggestions.
Pastors need to include time to rest in their schedule. The rest of the pastor is important for these eight reasons.
Your church has a role to play in the spiritual growth of your pastor. Here are nine things.
Is it possible to give thanks for the church even when it does not seem to be possible? Yes. This article offers nine suggestions to try when you struggle to be thankful for your church.
Are you leading your church in evangelism? Here are nine questions you need to ask yourself as a pastor to determine your evangelistic focus.
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.
Every Christian is engaged in spiritual warfare. Why do we have to face spiritual warfare? Here are six reasons.
You may be hurting yourself as a church leader. How? Here are seven ways in which church leaders can hurt themselves.
Fear is not the only hindrance to evangelism. Here are ten other reasons Christians do not evangelize.
Why do people sleep during the church service? Here are nine reasons for people sleeping in church.
Why is trust between pastors sometimes low? This article gives four reasons why, and then five ways to build trust between pastors.
Leaders are readers. Without reading you cannot lead. How can you learn to read more? Here are twelve ways to read more and be a fruitful reader.
As a church leader, you should be trustworthy. Therefore, building trust is essential. How can you build trust? Here are ten ways you can build trust.
Confronting sin in a believer is not easy, but it must be done. This article gives seven reasons why.
If you were to evaluate your church's worship services, how will you do it? Here are seven questions you can ask in evaluating a church's worship, to see how much it is rooted in the gospel and in Christ.
How can your church can engage better in evangelism? Here are six ways you can use to strengthen evangelism in your church.
What are reasons people leave the church? Some things that push people to leave the church are caused by the church itself. Here are nine such ways that can lead to people leaving the church.
As a pastor, what leadership issues will you have to face in the pastoral ministry and in your leadership role? This article lists ten leadership issues you will have to deal with.
Leading the church through change is challenging. How can you help the church go through a change in a good way, when needed? Here are nine ideas for leading a church through change.
How can you know whether you are fighting against Satan or not? This article outlines ten questions to consider in order to discern if/where the enemy is at work in your life.
What are the challenges for young churches and young leaders? This article explains seven challenges.
Sermon illustrations are a good way of bringing the message home. However, not all sermon illustrations work. Here are ten problems with sermon illustrations.
What is the role of a Christian father toward his sons? How can a Christian father raise Christian boys? This article suggests mentoring them in eight areas of their lives.
This article mentions eight reasons why older people struggle with change.
It happens that we stop praying too soon. This article mentions seven wrong times to stop praying, with a final encouragement to pray without ceasing.
Can you have ministry regrets? Yes. This article shares seven of the author's regrets in the ministry, as a way to help others avoid experiencing the same regrets.
Cultivating holiness as a Christian is not an option. This article offers ten reasons for fighting for holiness.
Why is is that many church programs and church strategies aiming at church growth do not work? Here are eight reasons.
Do you struggle to do evangelism? This article lists eight reasons why the author finds it a struggle to evangelize, and you might very well find yourself in these reasons.
Do you have church staff members? As a pastor, what do you think your church staff members want you to know? Here are twelve things they want you to know.
Why should you give your pastor a sabbatical? This article offers seven reasons.
Is your church on the brink of a division? How do you know if you are facing divisions in the church? Here are eight warning signs of church division that you need to heed.
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.
Are you struggling with some sins in your life? Is there a way of breaking the patterns of sin? This article offers four steps you can take in fighting sin in your life.
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.
What is the cause of the loneliness of a pastor? One of the causes is a lack of friends. This article gives ten reasons why pastors do not have deep friendships in the pastoral ministry.
What is the pastor's expectations of church members? Here are eight expectations of pastors.
Does the exterior of the church matter? Does your church building say anything about the church? This article point to ten questions you need to ask in evaluating the church exterior.
The attacks of Satan are aimed at the church, and this article explains seven strategies of his.
Are you planning to leave the ministry? Do not take the decision to leave the ministry without asking yourself these nine questions.
How can you start a Bible reading plan that will help you read through the Bible? This article explains eight things you can do.
This article lists ten reasons why uninvolved members exist in churches.
Many ways of welcoming church visitors do not work. This article discusses ten problems with welcome centres.
How can you deal with conflict in the church in such a way that you give it proper attention? Here are eleven questions you need to ask when dealing with conflict.
Do you know what Satan wants from every Christian? Here are at least six he wants from you.
Are there reasons that can make someone hesitant to return to pastoral ministry? This article list ten possible reasons.
How can your small group reach out to the unchurched and new believers? Are you aware of these nine hindrances to joining a small church group?
What are young leaders looking for? This article lists twelve things.
Here are fifteen ways to welcome new church staff.
How can you make your church attendance to be more than just a habit? Here are twelve things to consider for fruitful church attendance.
What are the important things to consider when recruiting church workers? This article, as a word of caution, describes ten so-called negative equations.
Are you looking for a church leader? What criteria for choosing a church leader will you use? To help you, this article gives you thirteen questions you can ask a potential church leader.
How can you know the will of God? This article provides seven steps.
Welcoming church guests can make a great difference. What are ways you can welcome church visitors? This article offers twelve ways.
Teaching about suffering and persecution is important for the church. This article lists seven reasons why.
Why do pastors leave churches? This article lists ten reasons.
Even church leaders struggle with prayer, not praying as they should. Here are five reasons explaining why church leaders struggle to pray.
Self-examination, when done well, will lead to spiritual growth and joy. Here are eight questions you need to ask yourself in your spiritual examination.
A church leader needs a vision for ministry. This article identifies nine things that sometimes block a church leader's vision.
What causes pain in the church? This article lists ten things.
This article lists six ways your may consider for doing short-term missions well.
This article identifies eight mistakes you need to avoid as a young pastor.
The internet can be a great tool for preaching, but it can also be a hindrance to preaching. This article provides seven ways that the internet makes preaching difficult.
Taking care of your health and body is a spiritual matter. This article offers ten reasons why caring for the body and keeping good health are so important.
How will you pray for your pastor this coming Sunday? This article lists five things to consider when praying for a pastor.
This article points out ten results of poor discipleship in the church.
This article contends that Christian men need male friends in the church.
As a pastor, you must not let ministry harm your marriage. How can you keep the balance between marriage and ministry? Avoid these nine ways that pastors let their ministry harm their marriage.
As a pastor, you are responsible to lead laypeople. Here are nine things you need to know about leading laypeople in your church.
Small groups are important for the health of the church. Yet there can be problems with such groups. This article identifies such problems, and offers suggestions for how to correct them.
What are the important things to bear in mind when starting a church membership class? This article points to ten things you need to know.
Church revitalization and church planting are continuous processes in the church. How do you keep these two going? Here are eight requirements you will have to meet.
Did you know that online education bears value for your church? Here are eight reasons for online education.
Are you part of a team? Here are ten ways you can function in your role as a team member.
How do you build a strong team, for church or otherwise? This article suggests seven steps.
A church website plays a role in making the church known. This article outlines twelve marks of bad church websites.
How can you break free from the struggle with pornography? First, understand the power of pornography. This article provides ten reasons why pornography has power.
How can a church help to make its published material effective? One of the ways is by proofreading. This article offers ten reasons for proofreading church material.
Do you find yourself struggling to evangelize? Here are ten ways to help get you started in your personal evangelism.
Prayer in marriage is essential since it is part of a reflection of the relationship between Christ and his church. This article gives ten reasons why spouses should daily pray together.
How can you pray for missionaries? This article suggests eight ways.
As a Christian, you must be praying for the spread of the gospel. Therefore, you should be praying for missionaries. This article considers why you might often forget to pray for missionaries.
Church evaluation is done to help the church bring needed change within. This article explains ten steps you need to take to conduct an evaluation of the church.
How are you honouring the Great Commission as a leader in the church? Here are ten questions you can ask yourself in order to see to what extent you are mindful of the Great Commission in your labours.
Prayer is the life of the church. Is your church a praying church? How do you know if you are in a praying church? Here are ten questions to help you discern how your church is doing.
The Bible is central to the life of the church. Is your church a Bible-based church? How can you know? This article explains ten questions you need to ask in relation to the church's biblical foundation.
What are the marks of a teachable church? This article unpacks ten.
There is a way of addressing church stagnation and lack of discipleship in the church. Here are nine wrong ways of addressing the issue.