Is Mindfulness Christian?
“Instead of this stress-reducing “mindlessness” we need the reassuring presence of our Savior, Christ, who takes away our genuine guilt and gives us real spiritual stress relief.”
My Special-Needs Calling
“My primary calling is being a mother to a healthy one-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter with a severe feeding disability. It is a joyful, hopeful, sorrowful, tear-filled calling.”
Eight Ways Pastors Can Cultivate Long-Term Tenures
“Generally, long-term pastor tenures are better than short-term pastor tenures. The context where the pastor ministers can impact the tenure. The church body can impact the tenure. And the pastor can impact tenure length. Below are eight ways pastors can cultivate their own long-term tenures.”
Does your counselor have these two important skills?
Biblical counselors would change some of the terminology in this piece, but the insights are valuable.
Bakers should have the right not to make a ‘gay cake’ | Comment | The Times & The Sunday Times
A prominent gay rights activist argues against the current judicial trend of punishing small businesses for failure to bake cakes, etc.
My Top Ten Suggestions for New Pastors
“As still a rather newish seminary professor, I am growing accustomed to seeing yet another batch of graduates go off into their first pastorate. I regularly get asked for a tip or two about what to do upon arrival (or sometimes I just offer them without being asked!). So I thought I would give ten of them that I regularly pass along one way or the other.”
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace by Heath Lambert $3.99
What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman $3.99.