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1. 10 Unfair Expectations People Place on Pastors' Wives

In many churches, the pastor's wife carries heavy burdens. Sometimes, they are impossible expectations. To be fair, this post could refer to any church staff person, male or female, so it could be calle ...

Created on 05 September 2017

2. Are These 5 Pastors Among 'The Deplorables'?

Why would the former mayor of Houston subpoena sermons from five area pastors? Todd Starnes discusses the matter with Pastor Hernan Castano, one of the "Houston Five," in this Fox News clip. "We belie ...

Created on 06 June 2017

3. What You Should Do When a Spiritual Leader Falls Into Sin—and What You Shouldn't

Note: Today is the 25th anniversary of prolific writer Jamie Buckingham's death, yet this column he wrote for Charisma in 1992 still speaks a powerful word for our culture. When Dan Rostenkowski, chairman ...

Created on 17 February 2017

4. If You Struggle to Find Your Identity in Christ, This Could Help

...  the great First Baptist Church of Jackson, Mississippi, a congregation I served as minister of evangelism in the early 1970s. Bertha gladly admits that she loved being a pastor's wife. Our identity often s ...

Created on 02 February 2017

5. Why Settling for This in Your Life Is a Dangerous Proposition

Mediocrity is a warm blanket. Mediocrity is remaining with the bunch that finishes neither early or late, that turns in work much like everyone else's, that is satisfied with pretty good. Mediocrity is ...

Created on 22 December 2016

6. Could This Be Clogging Your Spiritual Ears?

... to me and said, "They know how to hear their pastor's voice but they don't know how to hear Mine, so they see you as a strange voice to them."   As I have been thinking about this statement the Lord sp ...

Created on 01 September 2016

7. The Surprising Reason People Leave Their Church

... e were teaching kids on Wednesday nights. It was a little overwhelming. We didn't know how to say no, so we "served" begrudgingly. Truth be told, we were both pastors' kids, and we were unsure how to fu ...

Created on 29 June 2016

8. Why Are Many Churches and Pastors Avoiding the 'S' Word?

Many are aware of 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will ...

Created on 15 June 2016

9. Why Do Many People Despise Some Preachers?

... repentance, the other restoration. Although there can be a mixture of both preacher and teacher in a person, there is often a clear difference. Pastors (and teachers) aim for the mind; preachers aim for ...

Created on 10 June 2016

10. Beware of Fakes, Phonies and Impersonators

...  to be. They appear to be true men and women of God serving as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. But the reality is that they are merely entertainers impersonating the real thing. Jesu ...

Created on 05 June 2016

11. When Your Pastor Sins

... se they are not allowed to be real people anymore. This only sets them up for isolation and a fall" (Keep Your Love On, p. 153). I've fallen into the pattern of hiding, performing and agreeing. I've w ...

Created on 24 May 2016

12. Are You Cain or Abel?

The story of Adam and Eve's two sons, Cain and Abel, takes us back to the infancy of humanity. The Earth was not yet full of people, but we had the same problems. This is a familiar story, so I'll summarize. ...

Created on 19 April 2016

13. 5 Keys for Women to Survive the Ministry

...  can't write about all of these topics in one session, I will be biblical and let the last be first. I thought being a pastor's wife would be like living in heaven, serving the saints and performing sain ...

Created on 04 April 2016

14. Spirit of Slander Is Raging Against Believers in This Season

... e. Over the last week, I've been accused of having a Jezebel spirit, splitting churches, cussing out pastors, being a lesbian, breaking and entering and stealing from churches, refusing to cooperate with pas ...

Created on 21 March 2016

15. 3 Things the Church Is Not

"If we can just get them in church." I have heard those words time and again from a desperate parent; a hurting wife; or a co-worker of someone needing a life change. How will going to church help? Take ...

Created on 03 March 2016

16. Women of God, Have You Made Yourself Available for His Purposes?

... d to speak at conferences or have a husband who pastors a megachurch in order to be used significantly by God. A woman in ministry is a woman who has made herself available for the purposes and plans  ...

Created on 15 February 2016

17. How Will Pastors Nationwide Respond to This Joel 2 Moment?

UnitedCry DC16 is one of many calls to prayer, repentance and spiritual awakening rising in the nation. The difference with this one is that thousands of pastors from sea to shining sea are leading the ...

Created on 08 March 2016

18. How This Senior Pastor Is Shaking Up Her Church

"We live our lives as 'sent ones.' Our focus is on how to 'be' the church instead of how to 'do' church." That's the way Tina Spellman, senior pastor of Living Way Network (Adairsville Foursquare Church) ...

Created on 27 January 2016

19. Desperate Women in the Church

...  around her neck. "You're safe. I'm really not on the prowl for a man." Any pastors who are reading, have you ever stopped to listen, really listen, to the women in your church about how they feel the ...

Created on 26 January 2016

20. Creating the Atmosphere of Heaven Over Your Life

Every person carries an atmosphere with them. Many call it an attitude, but I like to call it an atmosphere because it invades the room when they arrive and it departs when they depart. Some people's atmospheres ...

Created on 31 December 2015