If you can find time, this podcast featuring Zack Eswine on The Busy Pastor would be worth listening to. It can be found at For The Church.
If you can find time, this podcast featuring Zack Eswine on The Busy Pastor would be worth listening to. It can be found at For The Church.
Darryl Dash offers some counsel by which pastors can not only avoid covetousness, but nurture satisfaction and joy. We can fight pastoral covetousness in two ways. Positively: cultivate contentment. Find satisfaction in your work and your place. Pray for joy. Base your identity not on how well your ministry is going, but who you are …
Lewis Allen’s The Preacher’s Catechism is comprised of forty-three reflections based on catechism-style questions and answers aimed at preachers. The chapters provide some doctrinal reflection and some personal reflection applications. The first question: ‘What is God’s chief end in preaching?’ The answer to that question: ‘God’s chief end in preaching is to glorify his name.’ …
Gavin Ortlund offers seven areas in which pastors manifest affection (in contrast to love) for those the congregations they serve. He finishes by writing: See them through God’s eyes These people are the sheep of the shepherd. God loves them with a jealous, yearning, husband-like love: “Love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as …
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