A Pilgrim's Progress

Skye Jethani has written a bold article entitled The Celebrity Pastor Factory . The author discusses the way in which publishing companies...

A few days I ago I received a flyer in the mail for the 2016 Ligonier National Conference . It is addressed to "Pastor and Mrs. Er...

Um...could I have Channel 3 please?

Institutional Christianity has three non-negotiable characteristics. First, the leaders are "experts" from outside the chur...

I'm not generally a fan of church budgets. They are frequently complicated and self-serving. Too often they show what the church ...

I've been gradually answering a series of questions that I raised back in May in the post entitled Sorry, But I Can't Stop Asking...

This is a question I had to wrestle with when I was a professional pastor. I resigned because I came to the conclusion that the bible ...

The title of this post borders on redundancy. That was purposeful on my part. Professional pastors by definition are professionals. ...

What do today's churches generally spend money on? The answer is a simple and profound three-headed monster: pastors, buildings, a...

Simple math: a church has a finite amount of money to spend. If a local body decides to pay a pastor a salary, then a large portion of...

Institutional churches have to take in a certain amount of money to pay for their primary expenses: building costs and pastoral salaries. T...

Professional Pastors by definition receive a salary. This salary comes in exchange for services rendered. The problem with this arrange...

Most Give Buttons ask you to donate money to some sort of institutional ministry. Not this one. Instead, my Give Button is simply a re...

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Much of the giving that takes place within the church is done under compulsion . Most of us have been told that it is required for us to ...

Continuing in this series on Old Testament interpretive problems , we now come to one of the largest, most ubiquitous, and most disturbing...

This is a call to all salaried pastors everywhere on earth: please resign right now! Christ's church has both much potential and m...