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Simple Priorities Make Strong Ministry

My latest column at ChristianWeek: You wouldn’t think that paramedics have a lot to teach pastors about ministry. But according to Barry Parker, rector of St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto

Fear, Church Planting, and Seth Godin

One of the issues I had to work through as I thought about church planting is fear. As I sensed a growing desire to explore church planting, I could feel my fears rising.

How Sermons Are Measured

Spurgeon on how our sermons are measured: Horses are not to be judged by their bells or their trappings, but by limb and bone and blood; and sermons, when criticized by judicious hearers,

Saturday Links

Trends in Healthy Churches – Parts One and Two Fear, Risk, and the Church’s Mission Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Let’s Try the Gospel Meeting the Horizon: Issues Churches Need to Face in