Not every lesson we learn from great figures in Christian history flows from their strengths. Here’s a link to a sobering and challenging post about John Wesley’s marriage to Molly Vazeille. It’s not a hatchet job. All of our heroes have imperfections. In some ways their attainments make their failings all the more confusing and …
Department of ‘You Think I Make This Stuff Up’. Yesterday I posted Thom Rainer’s collation of pastor related tweets. Here’s the background behind number 3: Criticize your pastor on Facebook and bring a curse on yourself. mgpc will be happy to know that as we approach the relevant sections of 1 Samuel the exegesis in …
A great temptation in pastoral life is for the pastor to substitute themselves for God’s gracious Gospel power. At the Gospel Coalition, Paul Tripp writes about the fallacy of a practice of pastoral care which is at odds with pulpit ministry; one in which we functionally end up telling people what to do (problem solver …
I’ve got the ‘Let’s call Mondays our day off, but have meetings on three Monday nights of the month blues.’ Yeah, yeah, I know. Toughen up princ… er, pastor. Anyway, here’s a bunch of Twitter Tweets that mention pastors, collated by Thom Rainer. Numbers 7 and 10 made me smile. Numbers 2, 3, and 6 …
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