Category Archives: For Pastors

So I am really digging this running thing. I have been reading up on what to wear and how to train and what to eat, and it is really fun! (And the physical benefits aren’t bad either). But perhaps even more interesting is what marathon training has to say to us about ministry (and reallyContinue reading “Marathon Training and Ministry, part 2”

I was recently bit by the runner’s bug. And so here I am at 33 years old training for a marathon. I am enjoying the training, the newness and adventure of it all and of course the physical benefits. But one thing I am also learning is how much marathon training has to teach usContinue reading “Marathon Training and Ministry”

I have been thinking a lot about why we do what we do. And if we are honest with ourselves there is an inordinate amount of time, energy, worrying, guessing and second-guessing that takes place in many of our lives about what other people think about us. We pick our clothes, our words, our philosophies,Continue reading “As unto the Lord or unto men?”

Scripture tells us that the kingdom of God is advancing forcefully and that forceful men grab a hold of it. The Word also tells us that the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. These two verses speak to me. But they speak to me that there is more toContinue reading “Forceful Advancement of the Kingdom”

Our church can be whatever we desire it to be. We are the facilitators of change, success and failure. True transformation and change comes because of God’s love, grace and power but it is our faith and obedience or lack thereof that either releases God’s transforming grace or quenches His Spirit.   The question isContinue reading “Thoughts on church health and growth”

I wonder if you have noticed that God is on the move. He is lighting fires, changing lives and His Spirit is sweeping across the world with a force and fury wondrous to behold! You may be asking yourself…”Where is this movement?” And unfortunately many churches in North America are befuddled when they hear peopleContinue reading “God is moving!”

Your mother always told you to leave something better than you found it. Furthermore, don’t we all want others to have a better life because they know us? But how is someone else’s life actually better because they know you? How is our city better because you live here? Really we each only have threeContinue reading “Help Someone Today”

God has created us with His perfect intentions. He has reasons. They flow out of who He is. His character/His heart. Somehow they include us. Because of His love. Because of the communal nature of who He is and who invites us to be. Along the way we have lost our way. We have beenContinue reading “The purposes of life and ministry”