The Pastor and the Holy Spirit
Spurgeon on “The Holy Spirit in Connection With Our Ministry”:
“I believe in the Holy Ghost.” Having pronounced that sentence as a matter of creed, I hope we can also repeat it as
pastoring
Transitioning
It’s very hard to follow a pastor who founded the church, or whose tenure really marked a church, as I commented the other day. Hard, but not impossible.
In last Sunday’s
Spurgeon’s Advice for Pastors in Cities
Spurgeon offered this advice to his students who pastored in cities:
If you have to labour in a large town, I should recommend you to familiarize yourself, wherever your place of worship may
“That man forgets himself”
Spurgeon recounts a story by Abbé Mullois in Lectures to My Students. It’s a great story for those of us who are tempted to think that God uses us when we are
Messy Churches
One of the realities about churches is that they are messy. Even – especially – the good ones. I’ve always liked what Eugene Peterson said about pastoring:
Pastoral work consists of modest, daily, assigned