pastoring

Out of Step

I spent the weekend thinking about two men whose lives and ministries stayed out of step with our times. Fred Rogers I finally got around to watching Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Pastoral Covetousness

There’s something in us that discounts our current circumstances: our lives, our location, our role, our life. We look at others and want more. It’s sin, of course, a direct violation

The Public Reading of Scripture

It may be one of the most disobeyed commands in Scripture: “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching” (1 Timothy 4:13). We do pretty

A Prayer for Overwhelmed Pastors

It’s easy to get overwhelmed in the Fall. Summer was nice, but it’s so short, and we don’t always feel ready for the busyness of September. So I’m praying

Come, Pursue God With Me

This month’s book in A Year of Books on Preaching is Encountering God through Expository Preaching. I’ll post more about it next week. One thing I really like about this book