Developing the right church staff culture sets the tone for the entire church. Here are a few suggestions to help bring your staff together as a positive team.

You are a leader in your church and spiritual abuse has just been exposed. What do you do? How do you “clean house” and get your church back on track? This post offers you a guide for the process.

When a church can admit that they have been abusive, they need to eradicate it from the roots. Any remaining scent of abuse will be quickly picked up by people who have experienced an abusive church.

It’s hard to admit to abuse. It’s tempting to minimize it. But when a church or pastor is found to be spiritually abusive it needs to be exposed. Don’t minimize spiritual abuse.

When you’ve experienced spiritual abuse, it can be so devastating you may not feel like you will ever recover. But God is faithful. He can renew your spirit if you give him the opportunity. This post will give you some direction to let that happen.

You hear about spiritual abuse, church abuse, and religious abuse more and more in the news. But what is spiritual abuse? Learn what spiritual abuse is in this series of posts.

The church is supposed to be a blessing to the world. A pastor should be the greatest champion of grace and truth. There is nothing more perverse and distorted than a toxic pastor. Learn how to confront an abusive pastor.

Rebuilding trust is never easy in a broken relationship. But the first step to rebuilding trust is to admit your mistakes… fully. Here are five reasons why that’s true.

Toxic people can ruin any church event with their personal agenda, bad theology, or conspiracy theories. This post gives seven practical steps to address the toxic church member.

Toxic church people can dominate your church and ruin the experience for everyone. How do you confront the toxic church member? This post will help you to understand their shame based motivation. Part Two will give you seven steps to confronting them.

Too often our losses make us feel overwhelmed, like our life is slowly being chipped away. But God can fill up those losses and make you whole.

Insecurity often serves as a hidden motivator that drives many individuals to seek positions of leadership, including roles within the ministry. But what are some of the toxic characteristics that commonly appear in pastors struggling with insecurity? This article highlights twelve key traits that can negatively impact their leadership and the health of their congregations.

Church planters are courageous people. Having planted a church myself, I know. Scary stuff. But how do you know when you are ready to launch? Here are five indicators.

Preaching is more than self-help plus Bible verses. Preaching is offering people transformation through God’s power.

In the final post on helping pastors to take a sabbatical, I relate what I did on sabbatical and how it helped me.

When a pastor plans for a sabbatical you need to decide where to go and how long to go. I share my decision making process in this post.