CHURCH TAX & LAW

Pastors Beware – Your Blessing, May be your Demise   He called me on the phone ecstatic at the huge “blessing” his Church had just provided. To honor their Pastor, the Church had bought him [...]

The Pastor’s Greatest Enemy May Be Someone within His Church   Pastors are focused on the Adversary, the devil, as the one whom they see as the greatest threat to their ministry and their Church. [...]

Shepherd: The Role of A Pastor   Throughout Scripture God refers to Pastors as Shepherds and Christians as Sheep. Since God assigned those descriptions there must be a reason. Completing an in-depth study of the [...]

Church Stewardship Prime Directive   Most Pastors fervently preach the need to be good stewards of what God has provided. The problem, however, is that many of those same preachers do not practice what they [...]

  Are Photos on Your Church Website Legal   A Church was told by a website advisor that it needed to add photos to its site to make it more appealing to site visitors. The [...]

Are Your Ordination Credentials 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 [...]

Will Your Church Bylaws Survive A Court Challenge As I travel across this great nation ensuring that Churches and Pastors are protected from challenges that would otherwise undermine their ministry, I discover the naïveté of [...]

You Have Probably Overpaid the IRS! Tax season is officially upon us. The old adage is that there are only two things certain in this life: taxes, and death. For some it seems there is [...]

Church’s Responsibility for Donor Giving Statements   Tax season is upon us and many Church Members are preparing to file their individual tax returns. A substantial item for many will be the donations made to [...]

May Churches Give Negative Employment References? Pastor Ray faced a serious dilemma. He had recently dismissed his Youth Minister for sexual misconduct. The police had been notified, yet no charges were preferred (due to teen’s [...]