We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
  
2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 NIV
  
The greatest compliment you can give to your pastor is to personally be growing spiritually. If you want [...]

Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints. Philemon 7 NIV
 
Your pastor needs you to love him…even when he makes mistakes.
 
Do you love your pastor? Do you thank God for the person God has sent to lead your church? Here’s a more [...]

At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the [...]

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? 1 Corinthians 9:11-12 NIV  
 
Your pastor needs to be supported financially. He should not have to worry about how he [...]

So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. Acts 6:2 NIV  
 
I want to share five things the church can and should give to its pastor in some posts over [...]

 
That’s the kind of church I want to be a part of too!

My 17 year old son Nate (www.nateedmondson.com) works with our church’s youth group. Recently a 6th grader came to him with some questions.  He was struggling to understand two main questions.  1) How can God hear everyone’s prayers at one time?  And; 2) Why does God allow the suffering that has happened in his family?  My [...]

“announce now to the people, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.”” so twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained. Judges 7:3 NIV  
  
I can almost hear Gideon now, approaching the people with this one:  
” Okay now, listen up men, if any of you are just too afraid to do [...]

Has a divorce in your past kept you out of church? 
 
“Not one person from that church has ever called me in three years.”  That was the response from the man I ran into at a store recently.  “I’ll never set foot in that church again”, the man concluded.  Sadly I’m not sure he’s setting [...]

I’m a dreamer. I always want to do more with life.  I believe dreams are a healthy way to stretch the mind, keep a person growing, and even stay emotionally healthy.  (“Where there is not vision, the people perish.”)  On a recent plane ride I jotted down ten goals that I still have for my [...]