Are You Coasting?
Have you started to coast towards the Christmas holiday? Do you know what I mean? I often describe this season of life […]
Tag: calling
When Students Go to the Hospital
I’ve had the chance over the past week to spend a good amount of time at a nearby hospital with a student. […]
An “Attractive” Faith
How do you talk about the way Jesus is continually drawing us to himself?
Or how would you describe that special, mysterious “something” that you see in others that makes you want to be around them — because somehow it seems to point you to Jesus?
Catalyst | Andy Stanley | It Takes One To Know One
Follow me. Jesus selected Matthew to be an apostle. (Luke 5) Jesus selected the other 11 as well. (Luke 6) How […]
Catalyst | Blake Mycoskie | See a Need and Meet It
Blake Mycoskie wants to be known as the “chief shoe giver” at TOMS shoes. When asked about his inspirations (for starting […]
Bad Habits of a College Pastor
I’m thinking about some of my bad habits today… Could be a Monday thing. Or it may have something to do […]
When Burden Trumps Passion
I had the chance to hear from Dr. Ana Aspras Steele in Chapel this morning. Her life has been wrecked. And now, […]
Pastor as Vocation, Not Job
As I continue to comb back through the memoir of Eugene Peterson I was reminded of this challenging and important passage in […]
Claim Your Baggage
Ready or not… a new year of ministry has begun (or will soon begin).
And the reality is that some of us… are not ready.
Many more of us find ourselves much less ready than we’d like to be.
Some of us find ourselves in a place of spiritual, emotional or mental distress.
We don’t feel ready for a new year.
Not for the return of students, the start of classes or the work of serving as pastor to a rapidly moving community.
The Invisible Pastor
Do people ever ask you about what you do? And you can tell from the way they ask the question, or […]