Daniel Darling on church being a snapshot of God’s grace and not homogeneous unit management principles: Sometimes, in our quest to create cutting-edge churches, we sacrifice our long-term futures for short-term benefits. I’ve often felt this way as I’ve walked into vibrant, well-known churches or as I attend popular evangelical conferences. It seems that we …
This made me remember digging holes to see how far down we could get. This would have totally worked. source
Though parenting young children can be the most demanding of seasons in a person’s life, it is also a time that our minds return to with an increasing fondness as the years pass. Sarah Condon writes an essay on The Work Of Love which is parenting: It is hard to recognise that you are in …
Sometimes conflict is unavoidable in pastoral life. But having a passion for conflict is not helpful. To put it mildly. Winn Collier’s fictional pastor, Jonas McAnn: I’ve known a few pastors always licking their chops for a fight. I once heard a pastor recount to a group of other pastors how he had delivered an …
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