Stephen McDonald posts at Cloud of Steam. Today he has written about studying at the Melbourne Presbyterian College next year with a view to becoming a pastor. Men raised up for pastoral ministry are God’s gift to the church. I trust God’s people will encourage Stephen through this season with wisdom and love.
Instead of lashing out and spending money on a nifty new clerical hat (see picture below) I’ve finally succumbed to wordpress’s promptings and registered and activated mgpcpastor.com as this blog’s domain name. Thanks to the technical wizardry of wordpress all my old links are redirected and still work. You can update your links to this …
When I started university studies in the late 80’s I first encountered the use of BCE/CE (before common era and common era) instead of BC/AD (before Christ and anno domini/year of our Lord). Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the changing to BCE/CE in the proposed national curriculum for schools. Anyway, the …
From John Dickson, posted at the Willow Creek blog: Pastors exercise a unique type of leadership, for the simple reason that ‘structural authority’ hardly features in the biblical teaching about what it means to shepherd God’s people. Generally, leadership employs four tools: (1) ability, the natural flair that got the leader to a position of …
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