A helpful article on ministering to folk whose spiritual lives seem to be constant struggle. If you’ve been in ministry long enough, you’ll find yourself helping someone whose problems never seem to abate. You repeatedly remind them of the gospel and of who they are in Christ. For a while, they seem to find some …
Paul Tripp has composed a bonus chapter to his book on pastoral ministry, Dangerous Calling. In the chapter he outlines eleven practical steps for pastors to pursue to help them have healthy ministries. The tone of the book, and this chapter is fairly urgent and directive, but I think that’s because Tripp is very concerned …
How do you tell a scribe from a prophet…? The prophets love the people they chastise… From Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
Heard a sermon preached on the occasion of the installation of a new Lutheran pastor here in town. One of the points the preacher made was about pastoral leadership. Law will get results quicker than grace, but those results will not be sustainable. I also think those results, unsustainable as they are, undermine Gospel witness. …
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