When You Need to Fire Your Best Friend

When you work in ministry, it’s easy to feel like your co-workers are your best friends… which is why firing employees starts to feel a...

My Testimony: One Reason Our Churches Must Invest In Children and Teens

Here’s the way I’ve previously described how I heard the gospel: I first heard about Christ when God planted in my seventh-grade classroom a crazy,...

Less Is More

I remember being in a coach’s office as a teenager and reading a quote that was hung on the wall. The quote was by...

How Do I Fight Discouragement As a Pastor, When I’m Not Seeing Results?

Question: Lately, I’ve been feeling like it would be better if I left my church in someone else’s hands. I feel called, but we...

The One Big Reason Church Attendance Is Declining (and Most Church Leaders Are Unaware)

This one data point might be the most important information on the church and faith I have heard this year. We at Church Answers have...

10 Ways to Grow Your Church (growing Through Engagement)

In an era of declining church attendance, how do you grow your church and advance your mission? Well, one way is this: You turn ordinary attendees...

When the Stiff, Inflexibles Are In Control of the Church

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart….”  (Acts 7:51).  “No one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch pulls away...

Monday Morning Blues and the Pastor: 6 Proactive Steps

A pastor’s life is filled with both ups and downs and often after a Sunday we are hit with the Monday Morning Blues. Sundays...

What Are You Worrying About?

Leaders worry about stuff. I don’t mean that wring your hands, fretting, and get sick to your stomach kind of worry. But that kind...

7 Ways Multitasking Dumbs Down Leadership

Most leaders face the challenge to get more done with less time. Our so called time-saving technologies like smart phones, texting, and faster internet have...
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10 Ways to Tell You Are Slipping Spiritually

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.  (Hebrews...

12 Things That Tempt Men to Peruse Porn

As I’ve researched the issues caused by porn, I am shocked not just at its moral consequences, but at its social costs, damage to marriages,...

Course Corrections to Church Growth – by Jason Swann

We took over a 36-year-old church rebounding from the moral failure of their Senior Pastor on the other side of COVID. We came in...