Zack Eswine writes about the growth that can, but doesn’t always follow a burnout experience. “Just because we fall, that doesn’t mean we are necessarily wise now. We have to be teachable to the thing that God’s doing.” The lesson translates to other experiences. Are You Teachable? I don’t wish a breakdown or burnout on …
The heart of the Bible is not about emulating heroes. It’s about convicting you about, Jesus, the hero you need. From Aaron Earles: If we are honest we are ourselves, we can easily find ourselves in the pages of the Bible—just not among the heroes. We are the failures, the rejects, the idolaters, the sinful, …
Week by week worship is informed by a long-term desire to grow the theological health of the congregation by a balanced and comprehensive use of sources. There is a temptation in our jobs to operate solely within the week-to-week grind. Many pressures (some of them beyond us) make it hard for us to step out …
Corporate worship not as individual experience in the gathered body, or as common experience among the many, but as a shared experience that reveals the relationships and community that exist in Christ. From Zac Hicks’ The Worship Pastor: Part of loving the church well is reminding her that she is a community. in our day …
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