Ministry demands an enormous reservoir of physical, spiritual, and mental energy. Where does yours comes from? The energy to minister comes from many places. Not all of them are good. We can minister out of ambition, or self inflated estimation of our Continue Reading
March 1, 2013
The Wordsmith Journal Magazine Interview
The following interview was conducted by veteran journalist Mary Nichelson of TheWordsmithJournalMagazine.com and appears at http://www.thewordsmithjournalmagazine.com/interviews.html. Quoting from the site: "Mary supports publishers by interviewing Continue Reading
February 24, 2013
Considering a Call Amidst the Clamor of Bigger is Better
Dear Students of the Pastoral Ministry: Charles Haddon Spurgeon had it right when he commented on Zechariah 4:10: "It is a very great folly to despise 'the day of small things,' for it is usually God’s way to begin His great works with small Continue Reading
January 11, 2013
A New Years Letter to our Ministry Colleagues at RTS
My beloved in Christ, I wanted to write you directly. I wanted to share what it is a central and growing concern and aching plea to God: for revival in our time. I share this video of the first Faith for Living of the new year, recorded just a few weeks Continue Reading
December 13, 2012
Are You a Bill Snyder or a Nick Saban Pastor?
Two coaches. Two great coaches. And they are about as different as night and day. One, Coach Snyder, is the epitome of the "old school" type: cautious, reserved, conserving, and, well, just a fine, gentle man with a hidden but real furnace burning within. Continue Reading
September 3, 2012
A Prayer for the Unity of the Tribes of the Church
they said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?" (Judges 21:3 ESV) Oh Father, as the tribe of Benjamin in Judges 20 and 21, turned against Thee and Thy People and the blood Continue Reading
August 11, 2012
On the Matter of Preaching from Difficult Texts: A Letter to our Students (with attention to 2 Corinthians 5:21)
My Dearest Students in the Pastoral Ministry: I write to you about a matter which will occupy your life as much as any other—the matter of preaching from a difficult passage. Indeed, after Continue Reading
March 18, 2012
Letter to a New Pastor in the Springtime
In the springtime when the golden, Welsh daffodils gather in glorious brigades—brave, young, mythical sentinels appearing out of the fertile earth, guarding a new countryside painted with a Creator's palette of happy color—and spring lambs are born; Continue Reading
