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
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
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
Jack Miller to a pastor in conflict:
It’s hard for me to escape the conclusion that you are getting your identity from pastoring, and this identity is being substituted for a personal
Back in January I described my reading project for the year:
I’m going to try that this year with these books. I’ve figured that if I read 21 pages a day,