One of the workshops at the training conference I attended mentioned the difference between change and transition. They are not the same thing. Change is the event in which something becomes different; transition is the process in which change takes place. Some people don’t accept change because the transition is not well-managed. Leaders will often …
William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate speaks about the singular necessity of sitting at Jesus’ feet in discipleship and ministry. Those who preach and those who hear must share the conviction that we must sit at Jesus’ feet and be fed.
John Ortberg hits the bullseye in considerations about Mark Driscoll’s resignation from Mars Hill. The temptation is to focus on what we do or don’t do instead of looking deeply into our character. The pastor, the board said, had been guilty of arrogance — along with other attitudes and behaviors associated with arrogance. But had …
To mark Pastor Appreciation Month Crossway Publishing is giving away the ebook editions of Don Carson’s Memoirs Of An Ordinary Pastor free during October. Published back in 2008, Memoirs Of An Ordinary Pastor is Don Carson’s biographical tribute to the ministry of his father Tom Carson, who was a Baptist pastor in Canada. It is …
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