Wrong Beginning May Result in Serious Consequences Every day thousands of people in the USA answer God’s call into ministry. Some are very young and some are in the latter years of their life. I know of one Pastor that began Bible College at the age of 69 and took his first Pastorate at [...]
Is How You Are Honoring Your Pastor Illegal? In some Church circles, congregants go beyond Biblical and legal parameters in attempts to honor and bless their Pastor, Bishop, Apostle, etc. Much of the blame for this must be laid at the feet of the Pastor, Bishop, Apostle, etc. Some of these leaders have become [...]
Recent Supreme Court Ruling May Be a Blessing or a Curse President Bush 41 established his Faith Based Initiatives during his tenure from 1989-1993. During that time a window opened for Churches to obtain federal grants as long as they were not issued in the name of the Church. For a Church to get [...]
Relief From the “Contraceptive Mandate” Because of the Affordable Care Act and an Executive Order from President Obama to the Health and Human Services (HHS), Churches and religious organizations were mandated to supply contraceptives for those who received employee provided health care from those institutions. For some, this was contrary to their long [...]
Just Because the IRS Told You, Doesn’t Mean It Is Correct At our Clergy Tax Conferences all across America, I am often confronted with people who say the information they have received from the Internal Revenue Service (via phone, or internet search) is contrary to the actual Internal Revenue Code that is read aloud [...]
The Achilles Heel of Many Pastors Anyone who undertakes any task should do so with confidence. However, there is a big difference between confidence and arrogance. Confidence is defined as: “full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed. 2) [...]
God Expects His Churches to Obey IRS Regulations I continually speak to Pastors and Church Leaders throughout the USA and I am amazed at those whom feel as if they are somehow immune to the Internal Revenue Service and its codes, simply because they are a Church. Some are so naїve they almost flaunt [...]
Will Pastors Be Limited as to what They May Preach Everyone who has ever been called to preach has accepted the call of God with the understanding they should be free to preach the Word of God as he or she feels led by the Holy Spirit. So far this has been the case. [...]
Pastor, Are You Protected? He called the office, hardly able to speak. He was heart-broken, by the bombshell his Church had just dropped upon him. After years of faithful service to the Church he founded, he had been “stabbed in the back” by the Board of Trustees whom he thought were unanimously in favor [...]
You May Have Papers to Preach, but Are They Legal? He had married people in his small North Carolina Community for years and there never seemed to be a problem, but then the bottom fell out. In a divorce proceeding of a young couple, the man’s attorney decided to check the legality of the [...]