Pastor-theologians
A great interview with Kevin Vanhoozer, including this bit on the need for pastor-theolgians rather than therapist-managers. I love the second paragraph of his answer.
Q: Why should pastors make the
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
Transcript of the “pastors are losers” message
I got in a little trouble last month with a post on a conference I never attended. Here’s what I wrote:
Last week, a speaker at our regional convention said, “95% of
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
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:
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