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Brothers, We Must Feel the Truth of Hell

From John Piper’s Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry : I must feel the truth of hell–that it exists and is terrible and horrible beyond imaginings

Borderland Churches

My latest column at Christian Week: Gary Nelson has a word for our new context: borderlands. Borderlands are the place where “Christian faith, other faiths and unfaith intersect.” According to Nelson, it’s

To Be Forgotten

If you’re a pastor, you may struggle with the temptation to rise from obscurity and to become a great pastor. Ecclesiastes 4 speaks of such a man. He comes from nowhere, but

Pastoring Out of Envy

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:4) Our

What I’m Learning

Here’s some of what I’ve been learning lately: The importance of learning – One of the smartest pastors I know always says that he’s learning from me. At first this puzzled