Leaders Suffer Most
A good and sobering reminder from D.A. Carson in The Cross and Christian Ministry:
We follow a crucified Messiah. All the eschatological promises regarding the new heaven and the new earth, all
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Today’s Generation Hungry for Real Christianity
My latest column at Christian Week:
I started pastoring in the early 1990s when church growth principles and the seeker-sensitive movement were big. A decade later, beginning soon after 2000, the emerging church
A Pastor’s Prayer
From Martin Luther:
Lord, you have placed me in your church as an overseer and pastor. You see how unfit I am to administer this great and difficult office. Had I previously been
Part of Ordinary Ministerial Experience
C.H. Spurgeon knew what it was like to suffer from depression. I love his chapter “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” from his book Lectures to My Students. This paragraph is rich:
The
Low-Grade Sense of Ministerial Failure
Mondays are a tough day for pastors. Last week Leith Anderson spoke at our denominational convention and quipped that he never took Mondays off, because he believed he should be payed for the