NEW! The Ultimate Resource List for Intentional Pastors
The responsibilities of a pastor are wide-ranging. In this Ultimate Resource List for Intentional Pastors, you'll find tools to help you do ministry, lead the church intentionally, and be more productive.
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Whenever you preach a sermon, you want people to respond to what God is telling them. You want them to take a step in their walk with God.
When you labor in prayer over the week in preparation, you ask God to work in the hearts of those who will hear the message. You want them to:
- Believe
- Repent...
Do you want to write better sermons week in and week out?
I know, that’s kind of a silly question. Of course you do. Who wouldn’t?
You and I both know how important preaching is to the mission of the church. After all, Jesus was a preacher—a masterful one.
But that doesn’t...
Despite the growing number of unchurched, dechurched, and kinda churched people today, Easter is still a fantastic opportunity to reach new people. In this video, I want to point you to the 10 vital keys to preaching a life-changing Easter sermon.
Get your free copy of my 10-Step Guide to...
If there's one thing that would improve many people's preaching, it's designing their sermons with a better cadence of engagement.
And that's why I created this brand new tool that you can begin using right away. It's called, The Engagement Cycle. You can learn all about it in this video.
Get...
What’s better than seeing people surrender to Jesus?! I can’t come up with much. Seeing new people engage in the church and begin following Jesus is one of the most exciting and encouraging things we get to witness.
But for many churches, the new people don’t seem to be coming...
The work of a pastor is quite unique.
On any given day, you could be counseling a couple with a struggling marriage, planning a community outreach event, dealing with some HR concerns within your team, researching for a Bible Study, preparing for a sermon, reviewing building plans for an upcoming...
The perfect worship service doesn’t exi…
or maybe it does?
Think about it… What would make for a perfect worship service? A perfect Sunday?
What would happen? What wouldn’t happen?
If there’s a conversation you and your leadership team should have within the next...
As 2023 inches toward a close, it's a good time to take a step back and reflect on the year as a whole.
And as a part of that, I have compiled the most popular articles and videos of this year, according to you, the pastors who are a part of this community.
But before I get into all of the links,...
There’s two types of sermons:
- Sermons that happen in the pulpit
- Sermons that invade the entire room
Which one do you want to preach?
It’s obvious, isn’t it? The sermon that invades the room.
But in order to preach that kind of sermon, you’ve got to engage your people in...
When you stand up to preach, there are plenty of enemies lining up who want to destroy your sermon’s effectiveness.
Satan and his demons don’t want your sermon to cut to people’s hearts.
If we’re not careful, we can unintentionally add a few more enemies to the...
What doesn’t kill you makes you…
My guess is that you would finish that sentence with, makes you stronger.
But are you living as if that’s true?
Many people, pastors even, in today’s society are not.
Instead, they look at challenge as harmful. Comfort as king....
Every preacher I know wants to not merely preach information, but they want to preach for transformation.
That’s why you and I do what we do, isn’t it? Because we want people to experience all the riches of Christ.
- We want people to experience the love of God.
- We want people to...
