pastoring

What Sixto Rodriguez Can Teach Pastors

Sixto Rodriguez wanted to become a musician. He released a single in 1967, and didn’t record again for three years. He released two records in 1970 and 1971. They didn’t sell

When Pastors Fall

Ten suggestions: Don’t be surprised. We’re all vulnerable. Pastors are sinners like everyone else. Nobody is above falling. For the Fallen Pastor Step aside. You are not your ministry. When you

No Such Thing As Prominent Service

I’m not a Bob Dylan fan, although his album Modern Times served as the soundtrack for writing my thesis back in 2006. I am impressed, though, by his unreachability when awarded a

Show Them

When I graduated from seminary 25 years ago, I had no business pastoring a church. Yet that’s what I did. I had learned theology, and I had developed the beginnings of a