Some pastors, especially young pastors, can be impatient for larger congregations and more public prominence. Sometimes that can be a holy impatience – a desire for greater usefulness, a passion to serve more needy sinners, a longing to develop gifts,…
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If you were watching a 30-second basketball video and a gorilla appeared on screen for nine seconds, you’d see it, right? Especially if it thumped its chest right in front of the camera! You couldn’t miss it, could you? Well,…
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Is Busyness Spirituality?Dave Craft challenges leaders who do too much and work too long.(HT Tim Challies) Ministerial Burnout Two burnt-out pastors have approached me just in the past week. Michael Horton provokes some thought on this subject here and here.…
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Here’s another great post by Brian Croft on how to time pastoral visits. The only thing I would emphasize is that although most illnesses are not as life-threatening today as they once were, I recommend that you always speak to…
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A few weeks ago, in response to a question, I posted a rough outline of a “normal” week of pastoral ministry. Since then I’ve been asked a few times to describe a “normal” pastoral visit. So, with apologies for the delay,…
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“Where are his feelings?” is the present media echo. First there was President Reagan’s former speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, previously sympathetic to President Obama: The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached…
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