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Pastor, Not Entrepreneur, Part 2
You can lead a church plant and not be an entrepreneur. But you shouldn’t lead a church plant if you’re not a pastor.
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Forum: Do Pastors Need a PhD?
Do pastors need to pursue a PhD?
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Liturgies Are the Pipes, But the Word Is the Water
In our use of liturgy, how can we make sure our confidence is in the power of God’s Word, not the creativity or ingenuity of our methods?
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How Pastoring Teaches You to Be “Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing”
In a healthy church, the work of bearing each other’s burdens and sorrows is never over. We’re always finding more problems to shepherd people through. And so I’m learning what it means to rest not in *my* finished work, but in Christ’s finished work for others.
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Why Christians Should Think About Death
Considering the reality of death can point us to the promises of God.
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Three Reasons You Should Preach Through Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes surprises people. That’s partly because it says things you don’t expect to hear from the Bible.
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Church Plants Need Pastors, Not Entrepreneurs
We often assume church planting requires more entrepreneurial skills than other pastoral contexts. Is that a fair assumption?
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Hope for the Melancholy Preacher
How do we learn to live with the fact that no sermon will ever measure up to the depths of our text, to the needs of our people, or to our ideal images of ourselves? What does success look like when you know your preaching will never be good enough?
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The American Jeremiad: A Bit of Perspective on the Rhetoric of Decline
We must guard against responses to cultural decline that appeal to a past that never existed or a future God hasn’t promised.
Review
Book Review: Homespun Gospel, by Todd Brenneman
This book criticizes Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, and Max Lucado for their sentimentality. Is the critique convincing?
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Book Review: The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, by George Marsden
George Marsden offers us a window into a lost world and, to some extent, the story of how that world was lost.
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Steve Jobs and the Goal of Preaching
Jobs said it’s not enough to offer customers what they already think they need. He wanted Apple to be a transformational influence, exposing and then meeting needs that customers didn’t realize they had.