Pastoral Care

After the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, how do pastors lead well in a fractured, reactive age? Here are five pastoral questions for this moment.

What the church gets wrong—and what it can get right—about forming a generation shaped by screens and longing for purpose.

Legal cannabis may be here to stay, but the Christian conversation is just getting started.

One moment we’re singing their praises; the next we’re questioning everything. Maybe we’re asking the wrong things of them.

Richard Foster discusses healthy pastoral leadership, his daily routine, and how to practice solitude in an age of distraction.

Churches have misused it and culture hates commitment. But don’t throw out the body with the bathwater.

From the files of Tim Keller

Spiritual leadership requires us to know the stories of our people.

We have a holy opportunity to return to our roots—a chance to recover the kind of care that once marked every aspect of the early church.

In Managing Your Household Well, Chap Bettis calls pastors to lead their families with the same intentionality they bring to their churches.

A benediction for the pastor who feels too fragile for the task—but stays anyway.

In a cynical age, pastors must carry their calling with tenderness and grit.

For 60 years culture has catechized your people on sex. Use the pulpit to cut through the lies and give them a richer and truer vision shaped by Scripture.

It requires pastoral wisdom to walk with members who feel at home in your church but burdened by the weight of its denominational baggage.

Some ministry lessons come through seminary. Others come in envelopes.

They’re showing up in church and asking real questions. Here are five truths that can shape them into faithful men of God.

Not all deconstruction is the same. A pastor offers three categories to help you listen better and shepherd well.

As more young adults walk away from church, your role isn’t to fix their families but to faithfully walk with them in hope.

What pastors need to know to turn ordinary faith into extraordinary care for the children God hasn’t forgotten.

Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow” reveals what pastors risk losing when they trade presence for productivity.