Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading: Should Pastors ‘Get Things Done’? We are to redeem the time with the slow work of prayer, the slow work of meditating on and teaching Scripture, and the

I Don’t Deserve This

It’s not hard to see the difficult parts of pastoral ministry. Expectations are high. The weight of pastoring is heavy. Discouragement is a constant temptation. People can and will hurt us. It’

Listening to the Bible

I was going to write this week about prayer, but this blog post changed my mind: It sounds a bit shocking to twenty-first-century ears, but hearing has been the primary way Christians have

Keep Watch

I used to dream about doing great things in ministry. I’ve since changed my definition of great things to “doing small, mostly overlooked things over a long period of time” (Zack Eswine)