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 have been reading Charles Cosgrove’s chapter in Cross-Cultural Paul: Journeys To Others, Journeys To Ourselves on American Individualism. This is a fascinating chapter full of profound observations about how our culture impacts the way in which ...
The more I preach, the more I realize how the context of our life impacts our reading of scripture. We certainly don’t want our life situations to rule the text. Yet it seems the Spirit uses the books we read, the people we encounter, the challeng...
The Spirit has been prompting us to explore our wedding policy. We have a beautiful building; many people want to get married at First Baptist. Recent inquiries have caused us to reconsider our policies. If you read them, you would find little var...
As some of you know, I enjoy listening to tech podcasts. Pundits express the implications of current technologies on various platforms. I guess I am geek, but I enjoy listing in. This past week, a panel discussed a recently launched digital newspa...
I have been preaching this year from the lectionary texts. It has been a new and challenging exercise for me. I have not given up on expository preaching; I teach the lectionary text in an expository fashion. We have been in Matthew 5 for the las...
It has been a while since making a post on this site. I have been neck deep in preparing my thesis proposal. I almost have it wrapped up. I am eager to get back into blogging. This is a post specifying a commitment to post at least once per week. ...
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