"Post Tenebras Lux"

Before You Quit the Ministry : Learning to Count Like Jesus . Some helpful biblical instruction from Pastor Mathis. We have over two hundred...

Few things in life are more painful than personal betrayal.  I have found that those who have experienced ministry mutinies first hand are...

Charles Spurgeon's advice to faithful ministers of the gospel.  " Expect to be misunderstood, misrepresented, belied, ridiculed, ...

This article was written by Pastor Tom Ascol and was originally posted on the Founders website .  Used with permission. "It’s comm...

What is generally true concerning all men is especially true of pastor-shepherds.  The worth of a soldier (Christian/pastor) is not determin...

photo credit: hvchurch.com And Jesus was saying to them all, " If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take ...

" It is a poor faith which can only trust God when friends are true, the body full of health, and the business profitable; but that i...

Having observed the American church for most of my life as a pastor's kid and upon completing my first decade of pastoral ministry ...

The past decade of pastoral ministry has been very sanctifying and for that I thank the Lord (Rom. 8:28-30).  In faith I am holding on to t...

Here is a dropout rate churches don’t talk about? "50% of pastors do not last 5 years & only 10% will retire as pastors. ...

Maintaining the right perspective in life and in pastoral ministry is very important (note 2 Corinthians 4:16-18).   This is one of the r...

In this, my final post in the series, I ( Todd Pruitt ) am picking up where I left off in part 4... 4. Devote time to reading works b...

I originally began publishing this new blog in order to highlight the triumphs and tribulations of church revitalization ministry.  ...