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The Death of Virtue Part II INTRODUCTION In part one of this two-part series, The Death of Virtue, we saw that hypocrisy has become impossible in America today, […]

Value Beyond Choice: How Abortion Maims Us All EDITOR’S NOTE:  The article below is a difficult one to publish. Even painful. For it is written by my daughter, Allison Luna, and it tel […]

OBITUARY: THE DEATH OF VIRTUE NOTICE: Sometime in the early 21st Century, virtue was laid to rest in America. After a long and labored illness, and unable to sustain its […]

My Precious: Lies or Truth? Power or Integrity? While attending university the first time, I worked as a customer service representative for one of the country’s best-known package d […]

Pastor or Leader? – Part II In our previous article, we began answering the question, “Pastor or Leader?” Should the role of the person who directs a local church be tha […]

Pastor or Leader – Part I A frequent conversation in the study and practice of pastoral ministry is “Leader or Pastor?” Should the role of the person who directs a […]

The third and final installment in our three-part look at Timeless Truths for 21st Century Ministers. 

I often tell young ministers that all ministers take their share of ‘hits” in ministry: from b […]

This article is the second of a three-part series on essential truths for 21st Century ministers. You can read the first installment here.

World events, church issues and the ministry itself tempt t […]

When I entered full-time ministry forty years ago, I wasn’t naïve. But I was idealistic. In our twenties, most ministers are. I believed in the goodness and sovereignty of God, the truth and promises of Hi […]

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the local church in Wittenberg, Germany, 95 reforms he believed necessary to revitalize the universal church and restore Jesus to His […]

Culture is imploding, collapsing in upon itself. Denying all absolutes and objective truth, culture is now without safeguards, consuming itself in a death spiral of spiritual and moral chaos. 

In his […]

It is hard to have patience with people who say, “There is no death” or “Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is, matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocab […]

Some silver lining on this dark cloud called COVID-19.  A long-standing prayer of mine may be in the process of being answered: the return of Psalm 23 pastors to the church of Jesus. Call them “ […]

QUESTION 7:

JOURNEY’S PASTORS OFFER THEIR THOUGHTS

With the national conversation shifting to the question of ending the quarantine, pastors find their burden not lifted, but shifted as well. And […]

QUESTION 6:

Will pastors survive or thrive?

I was talking with a medical doctor just today who has kindly agreed to do a webinar with the members of Journey Pastoral Coaching. The subject of the […]

QUESTION 5:

Will pastoral ministry be primarily prophetic or merely visionary? 

Will the eternal or the temporal define pastoral ministry?

Students of Scripture and world history are not […]

QUESTION 4:

Will Ephesians 4.12-16 pastoral ministry make a comeback?

Many pastors are very good at doing ministry alone, and so, they think doing ministry alone is best. They create, plan, […]

QUESTION 3:

Will this lead to more pastoral care among people who are suffering?

In the business model church in the 20th-Century, shepherds morphed into CEOs, talking vision statements, 5-year […]

QUESTION TWO:

Will pastors become talking heads?  

Here’s how four U40 ministers phrased it: 

Will pastors be able to establish a balance between digital and anal […]

With the national conversation shifting to the question of ending the quarantine, pastors find their burden not lifted, but shifted as well. And deepened. As they shepherd their people in quarantine, they are […]