Leadership
Making The Urban Church Work
by Thomas Scarborough Thirteen years ago, I was called from middle-class suburbia to a historical Protestant Church in urban Cape Town. The years since then mark a period in which there have been significant shifts in urban Churches the world over — shifts which have not passed our own Church by. Yet where I sought […]
Preaching and Easter
‘Our people are hungry for preachers who, like Magdalene, have seen the risen Lord. My darkest moments in homiletics are not when my theology is porous. My darkest moments are when I have ceased to pray – when the familiar phrases fall trippingly from my pen and tongue but it is all rote, prepackaged, with […]
Sermon Preparation
‘It takes me sixty or seventy hours to shape a fifteen-minute homily. But, I assure you, the results outstrip the price; for your people, time and again fresh insight into the mind of Christ, often a burning yearning to listen to the Lord and say yes; for yourself, a continuing education, ever-new experience of the […]
The Liturgy of the Church
By Peter Sellick posted Thursday, 5 April 2007 Church attendance away from home can be a risky business, at least in the Protestant denominations although not always . Unlike Roman Catholics who can expect a competent Mass one does not know what to expect from a strange Anglican or Uniting Parish which may vary from […]
Good to Great
Good to Great | Practical Theology Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough As part of a postgraduate degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, I recently participated in seminars on “Understanding Organizational Dynamics”. I found a general ambivalence among postgraduate students with regard to applying business methods and insights to the Church. The observations which follow — all […]
Lay Ministry
From Bishop Willimon 03.26.2007 The Point of Pastoral Ministry: Lay Ministry Bill Easum, our consultant in ministry in North Alabama, has a provocative word about the need to empower the laity to do ministry: “You know, one of the issues here is that everyone relies too much on the pastor to do all the ministry.” […]
Youth Ministry
From a pastor-friend: Youth Evangelism – by Ken Moser. I have been challenged on numerous levels in regards to how we go about evangelism within our youth programs and structures. Ken has an honest critic of some of the most popular youth models around the world and takes a look at the early church and […]
Pastoral Leadership
The Dream of Pastoral Leadership Most contemporary accounts of leadership imply that the leader is the one who asks questions, moves toward answers, and clarifies where we are and what we are doing. However, Lewis Parks and Bruce Birch note that the Christian leader may be the one who helps us live with mystery, to […]
Coaching Small Group Leaders
The Fine Art of Coaching Small Group Leaders By Bill Tenny-Brittian Coaching appears to be the “next” big thing when it comes to church leadership. It seems almost everyone either (1) wants to be a coach, or (2) wants to be coached. The fact is, everyone needs a coach, but a great teacher doesn’t necessarily […]
Sidelining of old hymns is cultural vandalism
The Church of England’s sidelining of old hymns is cultural vandalism, says Christopher Ohlson Saturday March 10, 2007 The Guardian The rector of St James’s Piccadilly made, as Hercule Poirot used to say of the murderer, a fatal mistake at a recent Sunday service. He forewarned us: “Some of you may be unfamiliar with the […]
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