Tag: Dale Chamberlain

Pastoral pay is important. While it isn’t always a make-or-break factor in a healthy relationship between a pastor and his church’s governing boards, it is nevertheless an important one.

Leadership has to start with leading yourself well. You may be skilled, charismatic, or gifted, and those things may serve you well and advance your influence. Nevertheless, those abilities will only get you so far if you have not cultivated integrity.

To be sure, most pastors are aware that sometimes remarks made against them are more a reflection of the person making them, and they are good natured enough to let most things roll off their backs.

When someone is going through a difficult time in life, whether they are feeling overwhelmed, stricken with grief, or just generally burdened, they are often encouraged that though their challenges are considerable, God would never give them more than they could handle. This is not a biblical concept.

As this type of AI technology becomes more prevalent, Christians will need to grapple with how to use it in a way that honors God, as well as what AI means for how we conceive of our own identity as people created in the image of God.

Being a youth pastor is also a lot of work, full of odd hours, vastly varied responsibilities, and often unexpected moments wherein students need genuine pastoral care and wise counsel.

Pastors who allow suspicion to guide their interactions with foreign ideas and practices not only cultivate a personal lifestyle marked by fundamentalism but an entire congregation that is.

While you won’t always be as consistent in your followthrough as you had hoped, the process of setting resolutions can be an important spiritual discipline that at least sets our focus in the right direction.