pastoring

Preaching – too much of a good thing?

My friend LT suggests that sermons may be like nitrogen in fertilizer. It’s necessary, yet too high a concentration is deadly: The point I try to make about sermons is that they

Tim Keller on spiritual fruit and ministry

Last Saturday morning, I attended the President’s Breakfast at Gordon-Conwell. I knew that I wasn’t in Kansas anymore when I asked the gentleman next to me how long he’d lived

Clergy vs. firefighters

My brothers are firefighters, which is why I was glad to send them an e-mail today with the subject line “Beat you guys!” I referred to this survey: Here are the Top 10

Pastors and community

Someone from the church asked me the other day how my studies are going. My defense is coming up in March, and if that goes well I’ll be graduating in May. “I