The Hardest Part of Ministry

The hardest part of pastoral ministry is not the work. It’s not that things take longer than you’d think, or that success is hard to measure. The hardest part of ministry

Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading: Four Steps to Kill Nagging Sins Here are four strategies for maintaining vigilance in the fight, drawn from John Owen, and particularly in relation to a nagging, persistent

Failure

We’ve invited a guest speaker to our church next month. His bio says that he’s a “husband, dad, friend, big sinner enjoying an even bigger grace, unlikely pastor, wanna-be-musician, writer-at-times, a

Six Benefits of Visiting Other Churches

Our church meets on Sunday afternoons. That’s meant that I am free on Sunday mornings, and am able to visit other churches. Over the past four years, I’ve visited dozens of