Teachers, the antidote to discouragement isn’t to think of yourself and your abilities more. It’s realizing that if you were to stand beside the limitless God and compare His accomplishments and role to your responsibilities, you couldn’t hold a candle to what He is able to do.…
Pastoring a flock is a tremendously difficult, often-stressful undertaking. It is a vocational path one should choose only after engaging in earnest prayer, and with unwavering conviction. Various denominations govern their pastors using different frameworks, and I suppose some approaches are better, more gracious, gentler than others. But even in the best circumstances, full-time ministry……
In this portion of scripture, Jesus’ disciples tried to get Him to eat a meal. The Lord though, took the conversation in a different direction. This led Him t…
This post was first published in August, 2017. —ed. One of the dominant myths in evangelicalism is thatthe growth of Christianity hinges on its popularity. The idea that more people will repent if only the preacher were cooler or funnier invariably causes the church to suffer through a ridiculous parade of entrepreneurial types who act …