This is not really a new-year’s resolution, but an all-year, every-year resolution. The other pastors in town know that I’m committed to preaching from the Bible. They also know of my disapproval if visiting speakers at combined services here teach their own wisdom and illustrate it with Bible texts, generally removed from context, or take …
Here are three essays from last week that I found beneficial as a pastor and a person. Let’s start with a post from Jon Acuff on the Stuff Christians Like site entitled “Pretending We Have Boxes”. It’s part reflection on the Tiger Wood’s downfall and part personal application. Acuff remembers a time in his own …
As he reflects on thirty years of pastoring Scotty Smith characterises his journey in this manner: ‘Armed with answers to questions few were asking, I was more preoccupied with being right than being caring. Though a commitment to defending the truth and loving well are not mutually exclusive, it seems that spotting heresies required so …
Things back up in my feed reader. Then I group some related stuff together in a post. Upon arrival in Mount Gambier I started using the job description ‘pastor’ in contrast to ‘minister’. I’ve also pretty much divested myself of any title. ‘Reverend’ still bobs up from time to time. I managed to go two …
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