Humans are pretty complex, and our lives are all different. In a normal size church congregation, at any given time, more than a few folk are doing it tough. Here’s how not to deal with that. We minister through patience, prayer and presence. God will lift you up. And don’t rule out going to your …
Article about the counter-productive goal of perfection on Mockingbird blog recounts how Philip Humber, a US baseball pitcher who pitched a perfect major league game (retired 27 batters in a row, three up and three down, every inning for nine innings. No walks, no hits) and yet found himself cut from his team’s roster at …
A constant temptation in pastoral life is to strip-mine the Scriptures in search of that which the pastor thinks will bring needed challenge and change to their congregation while never digging into the Word consciously aware of the need for it to confront and transform the pastor himself. A worrying sign is when the consistent …
The capacity to confess other people’s sin and failings while never mentioning your own is simply gossip. It’s also a sign of a mind that needs to justify itself. This is an area in which pastors have to be particularly careful. We hear a lot and we observe a lot. But there is much we …
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