This fellow looks like he has the crisis management skills to be a pastor.
This fellow looks like he has the crisis management skills to be a pastor.
Some holiday reading which arrived today. I don’t feel quite like I did when I ordered this two and half weeks ago, but progress is slow. My leave has been extended by another two weeks.
Kevin DeYoung identifies these five points as being indicative of feedback on his preaching. They strike me as being generally true, and the first three are part of my goals for preaching after leave. Your introductions are too long. Don’t be afraid to dive right into the text. Your sermons could be five minutes shorter …
Chuck Lawless summarises his own work on expectant versus reactive churches. When I get weary I trend more to the reactive spectrum. There’s a bunch of things that I call my ‘to do’ list. More of them were actioned in my early days at MGPC. Over the last few years the pace has slowed. I’m …