pastoring

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

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

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,

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