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 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...
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...
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