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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 […]

Failure.

It’s probably one of the things we fear the most as ministry leaders.

But from where I stand, I think there are few things that would constitute true failure in ministry…

The abuse of leadership — most certainly.

Not tending to our own spiritual needs, and letting our cup run dry, such that we render ourselves ineffective would be another.

But I think much of what we do, and are called to be about, will include little failures here and there.

Friends and colleagues, Preparation for the next Blogathon are now underway! The LEADing LEADers Blogathon will be a chance for us to […]

The college years are some of the most formative in life. During this critical time, students are going through a tremendous amount […]

As we dive into a new year of ministry, and attempt to draw in the large class of incoming first-year students, […]

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.