Pastoral Leadership

My dad was saved in a revival meeting in 1930. The revival meetings were held every night for six straight weeks! My grandfather loaded his family up into the Model A every evening and drove seven miles from the family farm to the church. Upon arrival, they listened to . . .

I am not a fisherman—in fact, I have never caught a fish in my entire life! I know what some of you are thinking. “John, if you went fishing with me—we would catch fish!” Well, I have gone fishing with people like you and guess what? No . . .

You may have read the title to this article and thought, I already know who the toughest person to lead is. He is one of our church members who calls me all the time, but never shows up to help out at the church. He always has a problem with something but never . . .

Young people today are flocking to a new phenomenon called the “emergent church.” It really isn’t new—it is the same old deception of Satan dressed in modern attire.

Many sincere young men wrestle with the question: “If compromising . . .

Our independent Baptist churches support about 4,000 missionaries for a world of over 6 billion people. These missionaries have left their home churches for a strange culture to spread the Gospel.

The members of the church only give when they see . . .