Unbelief System
Every church I know has a belief system. It’s a statement of faith or theological system with affirmations and denials of what they believe. It’s usually found somewhere on the website
pastoring
Do You Want to Be Somebody?
“Do you want to be somebody?”
You wouldn’t expect this to be the title of a chapter in a book on preaching. Yet it is in the book On Preaching by H.
How a Pastor Thinks of the Church
I used to be friends with pastors who had a low view of the church. I absorbed this view, and became a worse pastor because of it. Cynicism is corrosive for a pastor
Clean or Abundant
Proverbs 14:4 gives us a stark choice:
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
I’ll be honest. I want
Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Ministry
At first glance, Luther’s 1527 piece Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague is a curiosity that has little relevance to today. On August 2, 1527, the bubonic plague arrived in