One of the top trends of 2016 was the continued growth of online video. This trend held true with videos captured and produced by our talented Southern Productions team. In the past year we saw unprecedented growth in video views whether they were... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Around this time each year we like to look back at the content we published over the past year to see what resonated with you, the reader. Our focus at The Southern Blog has been to produce content that serves the pastor, missionary, and/or church... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Sometimes at certain times in our lives God uses particular books to move us in significant ways. We wonder how it is that we could be reading that book at that exact time and God can guide us in that exact way. Certainly it can only be attributed... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the “professionals.” After all, isn’t evangelism a spiritual gift? In this article I offer quick guide for pastors to know how to answer them. Two common arguments... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Marriage is hard enough, but add ministry into the mix and you have a recipe for a potential mess. My work with pastors and their families causes me to see the messiness that exists in pastors’ homes. There’s plenty of the same mess in my own home.... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Editors’ note: Several years ago, Founders Ministries published Dear Timothy, a highly-recommended multi-author work. The book was written as a series of letters from the veteran pastor, Paul, to the young upstart pastor, Timothy. In the spirit of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A lady recently approached me at church on Sunday and said sympathetically, “I thought last week’s sermon was really good.” She was trying to comfort me about the previous week’s message. Apparently someone on my staff had told her how unhappy I had... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Centering your ministry on the Word of God will cause you to think about successful church life differently than the latest trends from Harvard Business Review would suggest because gospel ministry is far different than simply the application of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The first thing that happens after we have realised our election to God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our prejudices and our parochial notions and our patriotisms; we are turned into servants of God’s own purpose. — Oswald Chambers I was... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Globalization and immigration are two buzzwords of the current political debate. Recent history has seen an unprecedented increase in interaction between governments and economies such that what happens elsewhere in the world now reverberates here... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
