Tag: Making Disciples

Broken, Hurting Pastors: 9 Sources of Pastoral Disintegration

February 10, 2023

I was talking to a friend today at the end of the Evangelical Free Church of America Theology conference at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. We were catching up on one another’s lives and ministries, sharing prayer requests and seeking to encourage one another in a three-decade-long friendship. My friend Roy, an expert … More Broken, Hurting Pastors: 9 Sources of Pastoral Disintegration

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Children at Play?

September 6, 2022

I love to hear the voices of children at play. I don’t know if it because I am from a BIG family or what, but a child’s voice gleefully playing together with other children always brings a smile to my face. Maybe it is part of being the oldest of 7 children. With 26 grandchildren, … More Children at Play?

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Church Failure: Most Churches Don’t Understand Discipleship

June 13, 2022

A couple of Mondays ago, I had the privilege of having a series of conversations with two pastors during a four and half hour walk around a golf course. We were all participating in a Young Life fund-raising event which doubled as a men’s ministry outing for a number of churches in the Columbia, SC … More Church Failure: Most Churches Don’t Understand Discipleship

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The Awkwardness of Praise and the Cancer it Feeds

October 20, 2021

“Whenever a man is praised it is meet for him to think about his sins and then consider, he should say ‘I am unworthy of the things that are said about me.” —Anonymous One of my professor colleagues at the seminary I taught at in California had a raw bluntness that cut through false modesty … More The Awkwardness of Praise and the Cancer it Feeds

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