A Pilgrim's Progress

This is part seven of my ten-part blog series entitled Ten Bad Reasons for Returning to the Institution . I've met many very nice ...

I'm taking a quick blog series break here to ask one important question: what is the primary factor that makes a church institution...

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

Click here to read some absolute, undiluted, 100% nonsense. The inanity is stunning.

Clergy elevation is a massive, ubiquitous, and damaging problem within the church as a whole. For some reason that I do not comprehend, pa...

The modern pastorate is a thing foreign to the bible. The professional pastor (he who dominates the preaching, leading, and decision m...

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 ...

A couple of years ago a young Christian man told me that I was "lukewarm." He was referring to this passage: 14 And to the ang...

I like the word poppycock because of the way it sounds. It basically means "nonsense" or "rubbish." If you want to r...

Below is a complete list of all my posts in the series 25 Reasons Professional Pastors Should Resign . Reason #1 - Professional Pastor...

Of all twenty-five reasons in this series, this one is the most problematic. While the bible shows us that Jesus Christ is the one and o...

Every good Christian teacher points to scripture over and over. The bible must be the source of any instruction that occurs within the l...

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

The church we see in the New Testament was active. Was the N.T. church perfect? By no means. However, they generally lived out activ...

It's Sunday morning right now. Many church bodies in this country will gather today. A small percentage will get together like big...

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

Generally speaking, pastors are able-bodied men who are capable of working a job. In light of this, they should do so . Normal jobs p...

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...

When institutional churches search for a new pastor they look for someone with a bible college or seminary degree. When men want to be...