Small Church Pastor

Second Thoughts: 100 things small church pastors need to
reconsider. (2020)

I was a pastor for thirty years before I retired and began coaching pastors. I’m now into my twelfth year of working with ministers and church leaders. The older I get, and the longer I do what I do, the more I find myself having second thoughts about how we do church. And not just church, but how pastors think. It’s not that I am worried that we’ve got it all wrong, but maybe there is another way to look at things. Maybe it would be helpful for us to reconsider things. Maybe the way we run our churches made sense at one time, but now there might be a more effective way to do it. Maybe there are things that fill our minds as pastors of smaller churches that aren’t doing us any good. We need to rethink, reconsider, challenge our approach to ministry and our role as a pastor.

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Naked Man Running: 100 IDEAS that work in a small church. (2017)

For the past ten years I have been coaching pastors of smaller churches. These leaders are always searching for answers and ideas that will relate to the unique challenges of pastoring a small church. Often times frustrated, they return from conferences led by pastors of larger churches telling them how to grow their church or offering them solutions that simply won’t work in a small church. A few years ago I realized that I had been accumulating ideas for the everyday problems pastors face. I’ve gathered all these ideas into one volume and categorized them so that a pastor can easily find answers to their specific problems. 

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Belligerent Believers. (2016)

Too many Christians and Pastors have become too hostile, confrontational, and belligerent towards those they disagree with politically or theologically. This is a violent response directed towards those outside and inside the church. Belligerent Believers is an attempt to help us see our belligerence and replace it with love, acceptance, and respect, without compromising our convictions.    

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Mile Wide, Inch Deep: Experiencing God beyond the shallows, soul care for busy pastors, and the rest of us. (2014)

Humorist Artemus Ward, a favorite author of President Abraham Lincoln, estimated the river Platte to be “a mile wide and an inch deep.” Many pastors, if they were honest, would say that Ward could have easily been describing their own spirituality. They are a mile wide, and an inch deep. If you feel like your depth of intimacy with God is an inch deep, while your ministry responsibilities stretch you a mile wide, then this book was written for you. For pastors and the rest of us, Mile Wide, Inch Deep will help you experience God beyond the shallows. It’s possible to go deeper. 

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