Posts Tagged ‘Pastoral Ministry’

*This episode was originally published on March 26, 2018 This week on Preaching and Preachers, Nate Pickowicz joins me in a discussion on pastoring in New England. Nate serves as the pastor of Harvest Bible Church in Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. He is also the author of Reviving New England: The Key to Revitalizing Post-Christian Read more

*This episode was originally published on March 19, 2018 This week on Preaching and Preachers, Brad Wheeler joins me in a discussion on ministry in a college town. Brad is the lead pastor at University Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also a contributing author and speaker for 9Marks ministries.

Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was one of the greatest elected officials in our nation’s history and one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. He was a tsunami of energy, one who never saw a mountain too tall to scale or a fight too threatening to join. He shook the nation, invented the modern presidency, and left a changed country in his wake. Read more

Every pastor knows the constant weight of sermon preparation. Sunday is a standing, unmovable deadline. It is like living in final exam week, with a massive deadline before you every Lord’s Day. But the preacher’s test is a public one, for all to see. He will be judged by God’s people. And, more importantly, he will be judged by God himself. Read more

Discouragement is not an emotion with which I am very familiar, but over the past several weeks I have felt it acutely. My sadness has been induced by the steady drip of ministerial sex scandals and the destruction they have wrought. Read more