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10 Gift Ideas for Pastor Appreciation Month
Pastor Appreciation Month and Pastor Appreciation Day are great opportunities every October to show how much you care for your pastor and church leaders. Here are some ideas to help you celebrate them this year.
September 16, 2024
- Diana Davis and Lifeway Staff
Show Pastor Appreciation All Year Long
Here are three ways church members can show their appreciation for their pastor's ministry throughout the year.
September 16, 2024
- Anonymous Pastor
Are You Expecting Too Much of Your Pastor?
The cultural expectations on pastors are mostly unbiblical, entirely impractical, and generally downright unrealistic. It has become an untenable situation, a burden no man can bear.
September 15, 2024
7 Biblical Models of Leadership
As a church staff or volunteer ministry leader, you can learn valuable and unique lessons from several biblical characters. Here are seven whose leadership played a significant role in leading the early church and furthering the gospel.
June 30, 2024
- Brooks Faulkner
Sermon: A Mother Called by God - Luke 1
History's most famous mother was called by mother to her task, just as parents today are called by God to their task.
May 1, 2024
- Andy Cook
How to Use Statistics in Your Sermons
What statistics should you look for? Where should you find statistics? And how do you use them in your sermons?
February 23, 2024
Why Is the CSB Needed?
The goal of the CSB is to retain the freshness of the HCSB translation, while also enhancing its faithfulness to the original languages and its readability for a modern audience.
April 17, 2023
- Lifeway Staff
9 Types of Books That Make Every Church Leader More Effective
What kind of books should we read? What kind of books make us more effective leaders? Let's look beyond the topics of leadership and theology.
July 30, 2020
- Marty Duren
5 Essential Steps When Hiring Church Staff
Adding these steps to your church hiring process can help create a healthy path for adding new staff members and create safeguards from bringing the wrong person into the mix.
June 29, 2020
- Marty Duren
What to Consider Before Resuming Church Services and Activities
All God’s people want to be together with God’s people again, but what might that look like? What kind of decisions and preparations should be considered? Here are a few ideas to help you think through the process.
May 5, 2020
- Marty Duren
