The Care Of Souls by Harold Senkbeil is a book about pastoral ministry that focuses on the pastoral role as ministering grace, rather than managerial or therapeutic. In writing about being a pastor, Senkbeil describes how the acts of pastoral craft move from being habits to what he terms habitus, and how the pastor moves …
Everyone waits, but there is a waiting that is the fruit of trust in God, and there is the waiting that is a stewing form of complaint. God gives us opportunity to grow in love and trust for him while we wait. From Jani Ortlund: Patience is not quite the same as waiting. While waiting …
This just about sums it up for me. source
Karl Vaters makes some observations arising from the deep and satisfying relationship between a congregation and a pastor. If you are where God called you to be, that should be enough to keep you there. You don’t have to prove your worth. You don’t have to justify your calling. You don’t have to see constant …
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