Your Sermons Don’t Feed Me!

Your Sermons Don’t Feed Me!

Systematic Theology. Exegesis. Church History. Contextualization. Liturgy. Pneumatology. Hebrew and Greek. Pastoral counseling. These are all subjects that most pastors are either familiar with or have taken seminary courses on. Transitioning from seminary to pastoral...
Your Sermons Don’t Feed Me!

Strange Fire Turns Toward Strained Polemics

So the firestorm from the Strange Fire Conference has been steadily building throughout the past few weeks and is now in full swing. When word got out that the conference was going to take place and that John MacArthur was releasing a book of the same name, Dr....
5 Ways to Effectively Live in Conflict

5 Ways to Effectively Live in Conflict

Pastoral leadership often equates to conflict resolution. While you may have spent all of your seminary days thinking you’d be sitting in your office writing sermons based on the ridiculously powerful exegetical insights you gained while parsing through...
Covenantal Relationships of Sacred Trust

Covenantal Relationships of Sacred Trust

I recently purchased a copy of Harold Westing’s Church Staff Handbook. I’m hoping to learn much from Westing in the area of being more effective as a church leadership and ministry team. Though the book is a little dated, it’s widely recognized as...