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Church Leadership: A Noble Task
When you hear the words “church leader,” I wonder what comes to your mind. Unfortunately, the words probably have negative connotations for many people today. After all, it’s the scandalous shepherds...
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A Lesson from Jesus’ Use of Illustrations
In his Lectures to My Students, Charles Spurgeon compares illustrations in preaching to windows in a house—they “let in light.” A house made of windows is unstable. A house with no windows is just...
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Mark Driscoll Resigns: What Can We Learn?
On Tuesday, October 14th, Mark Driscoll submitted his resignation as lead pastor of Mars Hill Church. The story has been covered by CNN, Huffington Post, Christianity Today, and the list goes on. One...
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An Interview with Mark Dever
Here is an excellent interview with Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and president of 9Marks Ministries. At one point, Dever is asked about the importance of expositional preaching. He...
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Churches Die in Manhattan. Or So They Say.
Kate Bachelder of The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed Tim Keller, Yoda-smart pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. You can read the full interview here. It is interesting to...
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A Glaze-Free Approach to Ministry (Book Notice)
The last thing we need is another Church, Inc. book. Today’s bestselling books on church growth, preaching, and pastoral leadership promise to improve our ministries by promoting popular business...
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Reconnecting Theological Scholarship and Pastoral Ministry
Preston Sprinkle has put together a nice blurb for the first Center for Pastor Theologian’s conference, which will be held in Chicago this November. Here are the conference details: The Pastor...
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Leaders Equipping; Members Ministering; The Body Building Itself Up
In Eph 4:7-16, Paul tells us that the triumphant Christ supplies spiritual leaders to equip the members of the body for the work of ministry. We should note here that leaders are the property of...
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Helps for Search Committees and Pastoral Candidates
A former professor of mine is fond of saying that most church committees consist of “the unwilling doing the unnecessary for the uninterested.” Thankfully, my most recent experience with a committee...
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The Center for Pastor Theologians’ First Annual Theology Conference
Perhaps you know the name Kevin Vanhoozer. If not, you should. If I was going to be marooned on an island and could grab only a handful of books before my departure, I would make sure I got at least...
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Tullian Tchividjian Resigns after Admitting an Affair
Terribly saddened on this Monday morning after Father’s Day. Our brothers and sisters at Coral Ridge Presbyterian, and certainly the Tchividjian family, need our prayers. Tullian released the following...
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Migration, Ordination, and Translation
We made it to Greeley, CO safely and with most of our sanity. Heaps of thanks to all who prayed for us as we endured what ended up being a 24-hour road trip. Highlights of the trip include the...
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How Satan Serves God: A Look at Two Curious NT Texts
Twice in the New Testament Paul refers to delivering someone to Satan. Sound a bit harsh? In the most recent issue of the Tyndale Bulletin, I explain what I think is going on in these curious cases....
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Twenty Lessons in Twenty Years of Ministry
Brian Croft, senior pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has written one of the best online pieces I’ve read in a long, long time. In the short article, he lists twenty lessons...
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Why the Christian Church Must Lead the Way in the Fight against Human...
Today I participated in a panel discussion at the University of Northern Colorado. The subject of our discussion was human trafficking. For those who were unable to attend the event, here are some of...
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The Gospel of Ghoul
October’s required reading list includes Timothy George’s article, “The Gospel of Ghoul.” The article is a critique of that thriving phenomenon within the subculture of American fundamentalist and...
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Why I Preach the Way I Do
This year at Cornerstone Community Church I’m preaching through Acts. We’ve titled the series, Unhindered: The Mission Continues. If you’re interested, you can find the first two sermons here, and more...
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Why Church Members Criticize Their Pastors OR Why Do We Forget That Jesus...
This article by Dan Doriani is an exceptional piece on what is certainly one of the most dispiriting parts of pastoral ministry: fielding criticism. Fellow pastors and parishioners near and far, please...
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The Courage to Preach
It was June 18, 1944, a terrifying time to live in London. The Germans’ bombing of the city had begun a few days before, and had already caused over 10,000 casualties. In the midst of an aerial...
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Leading as a Prophet, Priest, and King
My summer reading this year has been mostly in the category of pastoral leadership. I’ve worked my way through Peter Scazzero’s The Emotionally Healthy Leader and Jimmy Dodd’s Survive or Thrive. Still...
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