pastoring

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

God Likes to Work in Hidden Ways

Here’s a secret that pastors don’t want known: We’re deeply insecure. I know. It’s not much of a secret, is it? But we like to think nobody knows. I

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

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