As we turn the final pages of 2022, I once again offer my list of favorite reads for the year. As always, this is not a list of my favorite books published in 2022, but books read in 2022, whatever the publishing year. If a book is on the best of list, I recommend you give it a read in […]
Church History’s Wish List For Pastors – Part II In our previous article, we presented twenty gift ideas for your pastor as suggested by some of history’s most faithful pastors. This wish list from faithful pastors of history includes twenty more gifts you can give your pastor, gifts that will not only be a blessing […]
When we were children, we thoughtfully prepared our Christmas wish lists, some of us even forming them throughout the year. We would ready them to our parents, telling them, “If I could just have these, I wouldn’t ever ask for anything again.” We thought the things that had meaning for us at eight years of […]
I remember the moment the call came. I didn’t recognize it at the time, but looking back, I see it now. Just a couple years before, I was spending a day with a great friend, one of the two men who led me to Jesus when we were teens. As we talked, he said, “Alan, […]
Late this summer, we asked young ministers to answer two questions: Question 1: What is the greatest joy, in general, you have in vocational ministry? Question 2: From your experience, what is the most difficult part of vocational ministry? Here’s how they responded. QUESTION #1: What is the greatest joy, in general, you have in […]
Recently, someone asked me, “You’re a pastor, and you work with pastors, so tell me, where have all the pastors gone?” This person was not referring to pastors who have walked away from ministry but those who serve in pastoral positions but are not pastors in heart – they do not have a pastoral heartbeat. […]
Over two hundred fifty feet in the air, standing at the intersection of four 12-inch steel beams, I froze. The sky above me and open space below me, I was completely unable to move. BEAM WALKER What was I doing standing on a 12-inch beam, more than two hundred fifty feet in the air? It […]
Every month at Journey Pastoral Coaching, we ask our members to answer our monthly Insight Question. It’s an invaluable resource for me as the Lead Coach at Journey as members, in effect, coach me, helping me understand their world and their insights on the church and world. It’s also one way our members pay to […]
Thank you for clicking to read the Part Two of our “This One Thing You Must Do” article: an unpacking of the counsel Journey members would give to those just entering vocational ministry. Once again. . . The Scenario: There is a young man or woman in your circle of influence who is about to […]
INTRODUCTION In our previous article, we posted the first half of our 20 must-reads on pastoral ministry. You can read that article here. In this follow-up we look at the second half of our list, again focusing not on the “-ing” of pastoring, but the person, the pastor. These authors write with their attention fixed […]
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