Humans are pretty complex, and our lives are all different. In a normal size church congregation, at any given time, more than a few folk are doing it tough. Here’s how not to deal with that. We minister through patience, prayer and presence. God will lift you up. And don’t rule out going to your …
Dated January 19, 1563, Elector Frederick III’s preface to the Heidelberg Catechism is accepted as the document’s publication date. So today marks the 450th birthday of that aid to Christian devotion and education. While many of us rightly observe that the Shorter Catechism’s first question and answer: Q. What is the chief end of …
What does Dangerous Calling (Paul David Tripp, Crossway, 2012) promise? Subtitled Confronting The Unique Challenges Of Pastoral Ministry, Dangerous Calling was written to help pastors “take an honest look at yourself in the heart-and-life exposing mirror of the Word of God – to see things that are wrong and need correcting and to help you …
Addressing pastors, Paul Tripp puts the choice which every pastor has to make before us. It is the choice we commend to others. It is the choice which Jesus made. It is the choice we have to make and keep making. There may be only two roads for your heart to travel in ministry: the …
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