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For the last few years it seems that I haven’t dealt as much with the pastoral side of my pastoral musings. That has changed lately. I intend for it to change more. I still intend to deal with doctrine, exegesis, and even the occasional news story. I definitely want to bring in a little...
I’m not doing much blogging these days. There are several reasons why I’m not doing so. 1. I’m busy. 2. I’ve decided that I’ll not stress over whether or not I get to write my thoughts down. I’ll still remember them, even if you don’t get to see them. 3. I’m tired of stressing...
The church is medium-sized in attendance, yet, on paper the membership roll is even larger. Its solo pastor is a frustrated man. There are some good days, and certainly some fine people who encourage him, but he’s frustrated because the job God called him to do just cannot be done. He has many people...
“Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwrack, a...
I thought about changing the name of this blog. After all, most of what I muse about is not pastoral in nature. I thought about changing the name to Fundamentally Christian, or Fundamentally settled (as opposed to Unsettled Christianity). I thought it would be a pretty good/funny foil to Joel. In the end, I...
According to one survey, only 23% of pastors report being happy and content in their identity in Christ, in their church, and in their home. I suspect, however, that men in these situations might be crippled all the more were they to faithfully preach a text like 1 Tim. 5:17-20. They would be seen...
I wonder what it would be like to have some down time – time to rest and relax. The last three years haven’t given me much of that. The last six weeks have given even less. Pastoral duties, revival preaching, writing, and trying to put out a few proverbial fires have kept me on...
David Cloud says that it’s not as bad as it sounds. To lump all IB churches together into one pot of cultic abuse is slanderous.I have personally preached in hundreds of IB churches whose pastors do not demand “unquestioning loyalty,” whose pastors are humble men who know that they are under discipline just like...
If you are an academic, you need to put yourself into places where, as it were, you take your place with the frontline troops from time to time. This means engaging the outside world at a personal level, at an intellectual and cultural level; it means working and serving in the local church; it...
The ministry is wonderful. There have been times that I’ve wanted to throw in the towel, move to a remote, rural part of a foreign country, and plow a farm with a jackass. I even had begun picking out names for the jackass; he was going to be named after a few choice people...
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