This blog helps pastors and church leaders foster spiritual discernment and maintain a healthy work-life balance, offering reflections and practical advice to lead with clarity and purpose rooted in a strong connection with God.
I watched a very interesting TED talk today. “Wrongologist” Kathryn Schulz describes the necessity of admitting our fallibility. While some dismiss her talk as an argument for tolerance, I find her points extremely applicable to the church. Don’t ...
I have been deep in Charles Cosgrove and Dennis Hatfield’s book Church Conflict: The Hidden Systems Behind the Fights the past two days. The work is extremely insightful. They state their purpose in the first chapter. Our thesis is that behind...
I recently read Jim Van Yperen’s book, Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict. This is a premier work for church leaders. A notable feature is Van Yperen’s view of conflict. He sees it as an opportunity for God to work. Resolving conf...
I am spending a large chunk of today in Stephen Fowl’s Engaging Scripture: a Model for Theological Interpretation. He is proposing a new method of interpreting scripture. He suggests that scripture can only be interpreted through the life, practic...
We are studying the healing of the blind man in John 9 this week. I reflected a bit on the church blog here. But as I consider this story, I find tremendous implications for discernment. The main point of the story is not the healing of the blind...
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