Jared Wilson outlines five ways the Gospel shapes and empowers pastoral ministry. Here’s one of his four points. In the trenches of day-to-day ministry work, it can become tragically easy to think of the whole thing as a managerial enterprise. We plan and program, we mentor and coach, we write and preach. The relational work …
I love it when a new phrase pops up in my feed reader that just seems to express something simple yet important. This post from Mockingbird Blog explores the problem of people who are more enamoured with theology than with the Jesus their theology should point to. It’s not a screed against study, or anti-intellectual. …
Trevin Wax writes about the deadly temptation of desiring a church where everyone is happy with things exactly as they are. …we are right to pursue unity and peace in the church. But we are wrong to assume that the absence of conflict or complaint indicates that things are going in the right direction. The …
Preaching that is full of advice about how people can live like Christians can’t transform, only preaching that points people to God’s transforming power in the person and work of Jesus Christ has the hope of change. The conclusion of an article about Luther’s theology by Phillip Cary at First Things. How we have always …
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