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Steve Brown on why pastors need a mean streak Mercy is missional and vice versa The uncool glory of the gospel Leadership advice from Carl Trueman Trevin Wax on mundane tasks and interruptions

J.I. Packer’s final crusade Ministry is a series of hard conversations (via) A pastor’s dying words to his son Don’t be a preacher if… Dostoyevsky and why to join

A tweet by J.D. Greear on a wordless gospel A post by J.D. Greear: The Problem with Most Church Leadership Conferences I Go To Are you busier than Jesus? Four questions

Andrew Jones: Goodbyes to Emergent Village. “I have been watching as new theological emphases and sectarian attitudes towards church emerge…and it is just not something that I can lend my name to

ESV Reading Plans for the coming year, and instructions on how to subscribe to the plans as podcasts Why Most People Don’t Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions – And How to Keep