The Call to Ministry and the Leadership Moment
This article was originally published on Desiring God. If I’m going to watch a movie,...
Lay Elders Are Not the Shepherding JV Team
This article has also appeared on The Gospel Coalition. My leadership teeth were cut in a denomination where non-vocational elders didn’t...
Pastor, Christ’s Resurrection Fuels Resilience!
It has been a long decade since March, hasn’t it? It feels like we’ve been caught in a state of suspended animation, except the one...
Lift the Heavy Burden of Shame: How to Care for Parents of Prodigals
This post was originally featured on Desiring God. Prodigal kids: the gaping wound for many...
Can I be Humbly Ambitious?
Christians are flammable. God created us to burn. Not like a match—bright and hot but quickly extinguished—but long and strong....
The Call To Suffering
What comes to your mind when you consider the call to pastoral ministry? Preaching God’s truth to a rapt audience? Delivering dazzling...
Persevering Beyond The Pandemic
It’s the first sign of pandemic relief. All of the sudden, hospital discharges are greater than...
I’m Done With Seminary…Now What?
The most difficult aspect of seminary had nothing to do with parsing verbs in the Greek subjunctive mood. It wasn’t trying to keep up...
Pastoring in a Pandemic
As of this writing, the world is churning from the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Churches and pastors, assuming perhaps they might face a...
6 Surprises Every Premarital Counselor Should Cover
This article was originally published on The Gospel Coalition. Kimm and I had one premarital...
