Simple Priorities Make Strong Ministry

My latest column at ChristianWeek: You wouldn’t think that paramedics have a lot to teach pastors about ministry. But according to Barry Parker, rector of St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto

Fear, Church Planting, and Seth Godin

One of the issues I had to work through as I thought about church planting is fear. As I sensed a growing desire to explore church planting, I could feel my fears rising.

How Sermons Are Measured

Spurgeon on how our sermons are measured: Horses are not to be judged by their bells or their trappings, but by limb and bone and blood; and sermons, when criticized by judicious hearers,