How to organize your library
Pastors and students, if you want a guilt-trip, read Andy Naselli on how to organize a theological library. My only hope of attaining to this is in heaven. Seriously though, there are some good tips here. But don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

Pastoral Accountability
Not being a settled pastor in one congregation, I’ve been feeling the need for more formal accountability in my wider ministry. My local church and I have been working on this and while looking for resources I came across this great questionnaire used by John Piper at Desiring God.

The Cult of Personality and the Myth of Influence
What do you appreciate most about your pastor? The White Horse Inn reveals some worrying answers.

Ten things I wish someone had told me about ministry
Tim Challies put me on to this one.

Feeling others’ pain
In pastoral ministry, we will often come across suffering people who cannot really express themselves or describe their situation. Then there are others who are just not very open; they try to hide what’s going on in their lives, sometimes because they are afraid of how other Christians will respond. That’s where the eloquent pens of others, even if they may not be Christians, help us to enter into the sufferings of others with knowledge and sympathy. And that’s one of the reasons why I subscribe to the Postpartum Progress blog, where I can read moving articles like this from Alexis Lesa on Postpartum anxiety and the incessant fear of losing our loved ones.