pastoring

Pastors complaining about congregations

From Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together: A pastor should not complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in

Pastor’s Day with Charles Price

I spent the day at Heritage Seminary listening to Charles Price from People’s Church. Charles spoke from 1 Samuel on how pastors can stay fresh with God. If you’re interested, my

Beyond niceness

I read this passage in my daily readings this morning: But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn divisive people once,

Pastoral expectations and pressure

I always hesitate to post on the negative aspects of pastoring because every calling has its pressures. I hate to make it sound like pastors have it harder than anyone else. Pastors have

Pastoring isn’t so tough

Yesterday I argued that pastoring might be harder than other forms of leadership. In a way I believe that, simply because the North American church is in such a mess overall and there