The Pastor's Soul, Role, and Home.

Thanks for Sovereign Grace

2009-11-10T06:58:00-05:00

Today marks the 234th birthday of the United States Marine Corps—November 10, 1775. It’s a day I always pause, look back, and call to mind some of the great memories of days gone by. Ah, those were the days ....

Your Church: Building Up . . . or Chiseling Away?

2009-11-03T08:59:00-05:00

How can a church building suddenly turn up missing? Well . . . it did. Stolen! Last seen in July 2008, the 200-year-old Russian church disappeared just a few months later. Orthodox officials in a village northeast of Moscow intended...

In a Rut? Start Climbing!

2009-10-27T07:55:00-04:00

The church can get slick. Its ministers can become perfunctory in their tasks. I guess that’s why I love Pastor John Piper’s excellent volume, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (great title!). Read his words carefully. We pastors are being killed...

The Church’s Foundation

2009-10-20T06:56:00-04:00

Whenever we want to understand a topic or term, such as church, we should begin at the passage of primary reference. It helps to ask: Where did the word first appear, and in what context was it used? Surprisingly, the...

Principles All Churches Should Examine and Apply-- Part Two

2009-10-13T06:24:00-04:00

Last week, I shared with you the first two of three principles all churches should examine and apply. Here they are again, in summary: Clear, biblical thinking must override secular planning and a corporate mentality. Think spiritually! Studied, accurate decisions...

Principles All Churches Should Examine and Apply-- Part One

2009-10-06T11:19:07-04:00

I have discovered three principles and three imperatives I believe all churches should examine and apply. The first principle is this: clear, biblical thinking must override secular planning and a corporate mentality. And the imperative? Think spiritually! However well-organized our...

How to Trust When Feeling Troubled

2009-09-29T06:43:00-04:00

Some of you are facing what could easily be called an unsolvable problem. (How do I know that? I’m a pastor too.) It’s you, especially, I hope to encourage today. Often the situations with no human answers form the platform...

Pastoral Tact

2009-09-22T05:15:00-04:00

Remember the teacher or seminary professor you had who lacked tact? Learning was regularly sacrificed on the altar of fear. You wondered each session if that was the day you’d be singled out and embarrassed through some public put-down. Remember...

Love Them Tender

2009-09-15T06:59:00-04:00

Back when I was a kid, I got a bellyache that wouldn’t go away. It hurt so badly I couldn’t stand up straight. Or sit down without increasing the pain. Finally, my folks hauled me over to a big house...

Lust

2009-09-08T07:17:00-04:00

To follow up with last week’s post called, Silver . . . Sloth . . . Self . . . Sex, I want to urge you to watch a gut-level talk on the subject of lust. I recently delivered this...