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This page provides numerous articles that can help the pastor become a more effective pastor.  There is no reason for the pastor to re-invent the wheel!  This material is free…and available for download and immediate implementation. 

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Compensation Planning Guide – how to organize the pay package to get the best bang for the bucks!

Eight Reasons To Be A Bi-Vocational Pastor – God must have loved the bi-vocational pastor because He made so many of us! 

What Makes a Church Toxic? Author Philip Yancey shares his own experiences. 

5 Post-Pandemic Church Growth Accelerators – the world is changing! Share Carey Nieuwhof’s wise words with your leadership team. 

Finding A Way Through Conflict – I wish someone had shared this booklet with me in my early years!  By Dennis Burton and Wayne Oakes.  

Avoid The Top 5 Reasons For Pastoral Terminations – Bob Sheffield provides some excellent pointers. 

7 Practical Tips to Help You Stop Working 7 Days a Week – Easily adapted to your situation. 

Pastor Search Committee Guidebook – Prepared by Ed Gilman & Lewis McMulle

How To Approach A Pastor Search Committee Meeting – exhaustive list of questions to help you think before you leap!  Reasoning Behind The Questions – companion guide.  

Help! Our Pastor Search Committee is Taking Too Long – this document belongs in the hands of the search committee. 

12 Things a Church Pastor Cannot Do – This list should be published in the church bulletin/newsletter every October during Pastor Appreciation Month. 

Video: What God Expects the Pastor to Be Then Do! The members focus on what a pastor should do and their list is long! However, God first focuses on what a pastor is to BE! 

Adrian Rogers Sermon Collection – read his sermons on-line. The best preacher I ever heard! 

Five Stages Of A Pastor’s Ministry – the pattern is repeated over and over!  Chart From Lifeway.  

Key Considerations for Budgeting in Changing Times – great handout for your Finance team. 

Five Things Every Pastor Needs to Know about the Church Budget – Item #1: “reflects the philosophy of  ministry.” You know you have a problem if the budget for flowers is bigger than the budget for outreach! Great article. 

5 Musts About A Church Nursery – Cliff Hartley’s list is worthy of a leadership meeting discussion. 

5 Suggestions for Pastors When People Leave Your Church – Ron Edmondson provides excellent leadership tools. 

Leadership That Works – by Keith Leith.  Source of ppt is unknown. 

Housing Allowance Tax Mistakes – how to take legal advantage of your housing allowance.

Ten Things To Pray For Your Wife – how to pray more intelligently for your best ministry partner. 

Advice For Assistants – review this advice on a weekly basis! 

How Pastors Spend Their Time – see how you compare.  Distribute to your leaders. 

How To Do A Funeral Tribute With Flowers – this short ceremony adds much to the grave service!

How To Do The Funeral Of A Baby – this message was well received. 

Premarital Counseling – Ron Edmondson’s approach makes sense!

Ten Things Pastors Don’t Like About Pastoring – from researcher Thom Rainer

How To Lead Under Pressure – more from Thom Rainer

Eight Warning Signs For Forced Terminations – Thom Rainer’s list will make sense. 

Handling Complaints Against The Pastor – follow this process from a conciliator

Why Pastors Get Fired – Data from Southern Baptist Convention

Defining Moments In Ministry – think for a moment about the big, big picture. 

Billy Graham’s Biggest Regrets – end of ministry analysis in his own words.

Burnout #1.  Burnout #2.  Burnout #3.

How Churches Should Treat Pastor’s Children – by Thom Rainer

In Preparation Of The New Year – good way to psychologically reset for the new year. 

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