You Can’t Quit This
I told someone the other day that I’m discouraged as a church planter less than 10% of the time, which, it turns out, isn’t a bad ratio. But sometimes in that
Darryl Dash
I'm a grateful husband, father, oupa, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church East Toronto. I love learning, writing, and encouraging. I'm on a lifelong quest to become a humble, gracious old man.
People-Pleasing Pastors: An Interview with Charles Stone
Charles Stone is pastor of West Park Baptist Church in London, Ontario. He’s also author of a new book called People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership. I plan
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
A Word for the Discouraged
Discouragement. Fear. Doubt. These three harbingers of anxiety may not have been Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” but for most of us
In Praise of Less Grandiose Mission Statements
I spoke to a church planter whose vision was lofty: to transform a city for the glory of God, or something like that. He admitted that the reality was a little humbler. Some
The Tenets of Post-Christian Spirituality
Derek L. Worthington describes the three tenets of post-Christian spirituality in his book The Call of Jesus:
* a distant God — remote, detached, and uninvolved with our lives;
* “me” as a functional god,