pastoring

The Almost Invisible Church

I love this paragraph from James K.A. Smith’s new book On the Road With Saint Augustine: Let your eyes skate past the megachurch industrial complex and take note of the almost

Radically Ordinary Hospitality

It’s there, right in the middle of the character qualifications of eldership: Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable… (1 Timothy 3:2)

The Brokenhearted Pastor

I thought I could pastor without it. No more. If you’re a pastor, you’re going to have to learn to pastor sometimes with a broken heart. I remember meeting a congregation