A guest post by Ashley Hibbard
There are many unhealthy aspects of the Christian “celebrity culture” that has infiltrated almost every corner of the church, but one of the most deadly may be
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
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)
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
I’m blown away by Paul’s honesty in 2 Corinthians.
People in Corinth expected leaders to look successful. They didn’t have a category for someone like Paul. Weakness wasn’t in