Leadership
The Future Of The Church In [Your Town/Area] [2]
Well, where do we go from here? See the articles in the Resources section at the foot of this paper for a general overview of topics like ‘What Does a Healthy Church Look Like?’ John Mark Ministries also has an audio-tape on this topic. A little word of caution comes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In his […]
Pastors’ Wives And Manses
Contribution from a list of clergy I subscribe to… Years ago I was on a “settlements committee” and we were in the last stages, and were interviewing the candidate we were about to recommend. Other members of the committee asked some rather strange questions which were in hindsight helpful but at the time I bristled. […]
They Know Not What They Do
Even in Rome, the U.S. Cardinals still forgot the children I had to read the sentence twice to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. In the text of the American Cardinals’ statement issued last week in Rome, the hierarchs specified which statutory rapists among their clergy would be subject to being defrocked. Such a punishment […]
Expository Preaching
>From an evangelical pastor-friend: At the heart of what pastoral ministry is about is the question of authority. It’s probably worthwhile noting that expository preaching died out in the early church because of the growing ignorance of the clergy, the increasing liturgical complexity of the services, and the need for topical preaching to deal with […]
Membership In The Local Church
>From a Uniting Church (Australia) minister: Dear friends and colleagues We live at a time when many people are happy to participate in groups and organisations, but are less concerned with joining or ensuring that the organisation has a future. Some people will participate in the life of a local church, yet will be wary […]
Bill Gates Speech To High School Students
Bill Gates’ speech-love him or hate him, he comes pretty close to hitting the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here’s some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn […]
Leadership And The Sandhill Cranes
Bruce Larson talks about Sandhill Cranes “These large birds, who fly great distances across continents, have three remarkable qualities. First, they rotate leadership. Second, they choose leaders that can handle turbulence. And then, all during the time the one bird is leading, the rest are honking their affirmation.” (Developing the Leader Within You, Maxwell Introduction) […]
The Abuse Of Clergy – Metaphor Or Scandal
by G. Lloyd Rediger copyright 1994 The church has not begun to see and understand the anger of its clergy. For there is no category in America’s social consciousness for an angry pastor, except during the preaching of a now quaint “Hell & Damnation” sermon. But they are here – in the village churches, and […]
Preaching To A Postmodern World
Here are a few quotes from ” Preaching to a Postmodern World” by Graham Johnston. Baker books. The purpose of the book is to alert preachers that the world of the listener is not the world of the Pastor. In all sincerity he or she may be preaching truth but that truth is not received […]
Expository Preaching
Expository preaching necessary for true revival, Stephen Olford says May 9, 2002 By Jeff Robinson Preaching the Word Stephen Olford, founder and senior lecturer of the Stephen Olford Center for Biblical Preaching, speaks at Southern Seminary April 15. Olford was on campus for “Power in the Pulpit,” a series of sermons intended to strengthen pastoral […]
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