Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Pastors aren’t managers, they aren’t CEOs, they are gardeners, they are shepherds.
Advice from a Retiring Minister
Some words of advice for young (and old) pastors from John Samuel after 37 years of church ministry.
You Don’t Know When Your Last Sermon Will Be
Every pastor will preach his last sermon — but unlike Jesus, most of them won’t know it. Here are a few examples from history.
What I’ve Learned
From Anglicans, Baptists, and Presbyterians
Let me commend five principles that help and challenge me to read like a Christian.
3 Ways to Pursue Sabbath When You’re the Pastor
When you’re the pastor, it takes a lot of work to embrace, let alone plan for, the reality of Sabbath. So, how can a pastor Sabbath rightly?
There is power and leverage in not being interested in the stuff everybody else is interested in — the stuff other people insist is urgent.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: He Made It Almost to the End
I don’t want to be faithful for most of my life and then blow it in the end.
