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Discover a wide range of tools, guides, and materials designed to empower church leaders and strengthen communities. At APN, our resources are crafted to be practical and accessible, offering solutions that help you overcome challenges and foster meaningful growth. Start exploring and find the support you need today!
Augustine's Wisdom on Impactful Preaching
My fellow laborer and servant in Christ, Thank you for your kind words concerning my humble gift to God's Holy Church, De Doctrina...
Bud Brown
3 min read
On the pastor's prayer life
Prayer is crucial to the pastor's ministry. Isn't it odd that one of the great dangers pastors face in guiding the spiritual lives of...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Timeless Wisdom for Pastors: Counsel from the Church Fathers
You don't learn how to pastor in school. You learn as you go; it's OJT ("on-the-job training"). Those "practical ministry" courses—tips...
Bud Brown
4 min read
The Pastor's Accountability: An Unbearable Burden
The Bible warns pastors that they are accountable to Jesus for how they conduct their ministry.
Bud Brown
3 min read
Identifying the unique traits of Turnaround pastors
Fair warning : if you’re intrigued by the idea that Turnaround pastors can be identified by a few unique personality components, you’ll...
Bud Brown
5 min read
How an “Aha!” moment changed my life and my ministry
You’d probably attribute it to blind chance or dumb luck – if you don’t believe that God governs the course of our lives in detail. Two...
Bud Brown
2 min read
Is this the Interim Pastor’s most important task?
Interim pastors have plenty of “crucial” tasks to accomplish when leading a church in transition. But if everything’s important then...
Bud Brown
3 min read
The right way to hire an interim pastor – Part 2
The first article in this series offered guidance on three issues that churches considering retaining an interim pastor need to address....
Bud Brown
6 min read
10 instant training tools for busy interim pastors
There’s never enough time to stay current with your “must read” stack, is there? The interim pastor’s life is one challenge after...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Will all pastors be church planters and turnaround specialists?
Will settled pastors of the future need to have the personal qualities of a church planter, the unique abilities of a turnaround expert...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Church Security: the interim pastor’s responsibility
Lakeview Heights Baptist Church knows that church security is a hot topic that’s getting hotter all the time. This little church in...
Bud Brown
3 min read
The trait good mentors look for in pastors they coach
Humility. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.C. S. Lewis Humility expresses itself in a teachable...
Bud Brown
5 min read
How to Become Your Church’s Leader
Sergeant Ernie Savage embodied the qualities that pastors need to become leaders in their churches. A scene from the film We Were Soldiers...
Bud Brown
5 min read
Changing your church’s culture
As a young pastor, the church I was pastoring was growing by leaps and bounds. Our small building was running out of space and so I had a...
Josh Sorrows
2 min read
The First Priority of Church Leadership
John was more discouraged than ever after the Board meeting. It was another fatigued litany of excuses why they hadn’t fulfilled their...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Why leading change benefits you personally
What if the Lord were to reveal to you that in 10 years, your life and your ministry would be the same as it is now? Driving the same...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Look for church leaders at the dinner table, not the conference table.
All across America, thousands of pastors will make a grave mistake in the next few months. They will make a serious misstep in...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Coaching the Whole Pastor
Gary Westra interviews Matthew Bohling. Coaching the Whole Pastor
Gary Westra
1 min read
5 Challenges to the New Normal Church After Covid-19
Students of human nature may assume that life will go back to the “old normal” after Covid-19 passes and a vaccine is present. I fear...
Gary Westra
3 min read
10 Things every pastor should stop doing
You’ve only got 168 hours in a week to get things done. If you’re going to lead a turnaround church, you’ll need at least twice that many...
Bud Brown
2 min read
Increase Evangelism By Changing Attitudes
“If something doesn’t change around here, nothing’s going to change.” Eighty percent of the American clergy—those leading plateaued or...
Bud Brown
4 min read
Why Pastors Resist Change
The anxious seminary students waited for the sociology professor to hand out the final exam. Fifty percent of their semester’s grade hung...
Bud Brown
2 min read
Conditions for successful Turnaround Pastors
“Make corporate propaganda feel like folksy truisms” is how one Ad Director summed up his job. A Lifeguard said that her job consisted of...
Bud Brown
4 min read
Why must elders be good family leaders?
After his older brother was baptized in church, little Tommy sobbed all the way home. Three times his father asked what was wrong....
Bud Brown
5 min read
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