Clark Cothern

On sticky notes and paper shredders.

What happens when someone disrespects, undermines, or outright defies your pastoral authority?

Accountability is easy, until you hear what you don’t want to hear.

What a Sunday blackout revealed.

When God’s message changes the messenger.

Besides getting hurt and angry, what can I do?

Why less really is more this time of year.

A father’s “dying words” to his graduating senior.

Compare your list with this one.

My wife gave away the gift money, and now our kids will have no presents.

A halftime speech to a tired teammate.

Would you rather settle the dust or settle the score?

I’m looking for something better in this dark cloud.

As a preacher and a parent, I sometimes need evidence I’m really communicating.

After our fight, Doug and his wife left the church. So why do I, and they, still care?

My advice to a younger pastor facing an inevitable personal conflict.

This pastor wanted to forgive the man who attacked him—and just couldn’t.

Determining what the novice does well, and training him to do it.