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 …
Michael Milton asks whether pastors see themselves as a CEO or a shepherd. The answer will impact not just on a style of leadership, but on the nature of the body being led. He contrasts a purpose statement from a chief executive officer with one of his own creation about pastoral ministry: CEO Leadership First, …
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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