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Pastor, Remember Where Your Identity Is Found Before You Retire
The habits and patterns of our spiritual focus in the present will prepare us for the day when we’re not front-and-center.
Article
How to Decide When It’s Time to Stay or Go
Leaving a pastoral charge can be hard. Staying can be hard, too. And deciding to stay or go is more complicated the longer one serves.
Article
Why Bad Polity Hurt My Church Plant
Labor on developing polity before starting a church.
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Five Trends in Church Planting
Trends should become norms only when they arise from biblical roots.
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Why Not to Plant Churches
Yes, plant churches. But do so after counting the cost.
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Fundamentalism May Feel Safe, But It’s Shortsighted
A narrow fundamentalism blinds us to healthy catholicity and theological error due to pride in a sterile, tightly-packaged belief system.
Review
Book Review: The Shepherd’s Toolbox, by Timothy Z. Witmer
‘The Shepherd’s Toolbox’ gives practical counsel for "obstacles facing those who are committed to shepherding their flocks.”
Video
What’s Wrong with Us? Revival vs. Revivalism
Mark Dever, Jonathan Leeman, and friends discuss Revival vs. Revivalism, a conversation about two different ways of doing ministry today.
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Why Revivalism Causes Pastors to Burn Out and Job-Hop
Understanding dependence on the Word and Spirit would have reoriented my entire approach to and practice of pastoral ministry. But instead, I struggled to make sense of the man-centered revivalism I’d been taught.
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The Hope of Heaven at the Beginning and End of Ministry (with Omar Johnson & Phil Newton)
Pastors need the hope of heaven at the beginning of their ministry, and they still need it at the end of their ministry. Jonathan Leeman chats with Phil Newton (a pastor for 40+ years) and Omar Johnson (a brand-new pastor) about this. You can read Omar’s article here, and Phil’s here.
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The Hope of Heaven at the End of Ministry
I should have talked more about the hope of heaven at the beginning of my ministry because I certainly can’t quit talking about it now as I near my ministry’s end.
Article
Right and Wrong Pastoral Ambitions
Pastoral calling and ministry training do not inoculate from wrong ambitions. But men who are humbly lashed to God’s Word, with character shaped by the gospel, will pursue right ambitions.