You can feel it in the room. The elder meeting that runs ten minutes longer than it should. The question behind the question. The way someone cc's the...

I've been coaching pastors long enough to know what's killing them. It's not the long hours—though those don't help. It's not the difficult people—tho...

You know that moment in the parking lot before service?

When you sit in your car for an extra thirty seconds, taking that breath, forcing the smile, ...

You've read four articles now in this series on fear and desire (or I hope you have). You know about the desire you buried. The fear that's been runni...

I spent years on the road. 150 days a year traveling to speak, teach, train. But before you write me off because your calendar doesn't look like mine,...

It's been eight months since I went to Ireland. Eight months since I got on a plane with my son to write the music I'd been burying for thirty years. ...

This week at a training event, a pastor friend looked me dead in the eyes and said it, "Tim, people forget we're sheep too. And not just sheep—we're w...

I spent fifteen years pretending to be something I wasn't.

Wearing the pastor mask. The guy with answers for everything—your marriage, your kids, you...

I was thirty-four when I finally said it out loud.

Not what I was supposed to say. Not the kind of thing that gets you a bigger church or a pat on th...