Best Book of the Year
Sometimes I get pretty excited by a book in the same way that I get excited about a movie that’s only worth watching once. Other times I keep returning to it over
pastoring
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor
I’ve long had a theory that the most effective pastors are ones we’ll never hear anything about. It’s hard to believe this in a day of celebrity pastors and megachurch
Serving Under the Gospel of Grace
One of the problems with Christian ministry is that everyone is incompetent. Nobody – pastor, elder, teacher, leader – can transform a life, never mind transform a whole community of people.
I was thinking of
When Ministry Becomes Idolatry
If you haven’t looked at the whole paradigm of sin as idolatry, then you really need to do so. It’s transformative stuff. All of a sudden you begin to see the
The Longing Behind Pastoral Envy
Sin often takes something good and turns it into an idol, or it takes our desire for what is good and twists it. Yet underneath the sin is a legitimate longing. We try