Pastors

Thriving Essentials is a new way to get all the ministry leaders in your church aligned with key concepts in four areas: mission, discipleship, discernment, and leadership.

Let’s be clear. Dirty money can be found in the pockets of the uber-religious just as easily as it can be found in the pockets of the uber-irreligious.

For the longest time, I considered my desire to “be liked” a liability. A weakness. But watching the hit series Ted Lasso has caused me re-think this.

Here's the story of how Water Street CRC in Ontario used the Building Blocks of Faith to shape their congregation's faith formation work.

Rev. Bob Broekema shares his experience walking alongside a friend with cancer and being reminded that "ministry gets done, not by us but by God, when we wait and allow ourselves to get out of the way."

Rev. Dave Vroege shares a review of Diary of a Pastor’s Soul: The Holy Moments in a Life of Ministry

Life with Jesus is the end of “coyote living” and the beginning of friendship with God. Loneliness is exchanged for relationship, emptiness for hopefulness, and searching for satisfaction.

A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.

How a crowd of bovine buddies helped to break up my bloated balloon of gaseous stress, and how it might help you too.

Check your sermon file on this passage; my guess is you’ve got at least a few. That’s because preachers have to wrestle with this hard saying of Jesus.

Is there such a thing as too much giving? When it comes to generosity, is the sky always the limit?

Joel has advice for anyone who wants to become a giver by being a saver, “Waste-not, want-not, and be a good steward,” says Joel. “God multiplies it all."