Words are powerful.  Chances are, you can remeber things that others have said to you in your past.  Words have serious hang time.  As a pastor, you have a huge responsibility for you to communicate on behalf of God.  This is a sobering reality and an exciting privilege that I think about on a weekly [...]

As a pastor I have been given a platform.  I could use that platform to push any number of agendas.  It is easy to use the influence that God has blessed me with to talk about the latest fads, boycott the latest releases, pass judgement on others, or to promote a political agenda.  If you [...]

Every pastor I know entered ministry with a heart for God and a heart for people.  When God called me into ministry I was humbled and honored and freaked out to think that God would bless me with the responsibility of shepherding people.  I wish I could say that I have always maintained that mentality [...]

Verse 4 of 1 Thessalonians 2 reminds me that we, as Pastors, are messengers.  We carry the message.  We aren’t the message.  The messengers job is to deliver the message, not steal the show. As a messenger of God you are approved and entrusted by God.  God has handed you the baton of communicating to [...]