Do people really connnect with each other in your congregation? How do you build relationships that matter? Imagine running a survey in your Christian community. Two question: First, list the relationships you have that matter deeply to you — soul mates, heart friends, Starbucks buddies. We’re only counting the handful of people with whom you share life. Which […]
Review of “Loaded Words: Freeing 12 Hard Bible Words From Their Baggage”
I met Heather Choate Davis and Leann Luchinger at a conference. We traded books and talked about historical theology. It was a great way to pass the time at an event where none of us fit in. At all. They told me about the book they were working on: Loaded Words: Freeing 12 Hard Bible Words […]
Letters to a Young Pastor: A Reformed Approach to Divine Guidance
Dear ______: Yes, I agree, it would be awfully nice if God would speak up more often and give direct answers to our questions — like whether you are called to ministry. Most of us want divine guidance. We all face serious struggles and deep confusion at times. And it isn’t like God doesn’t care […]
Why the Cross? (Heidelberg Catechism Q39)
We Protestants tend to be pretty focused on the Cross. We hear Paul saying that he wanted to know nothing among the Corinthians but Christ, and him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). We transmogrify it to mean we should preach nothing but the Cross, even on Christmas (when the Cross was thirty years in the future) […]
How to Renew Your Church: A Page from John Calvin’s Playbook
I took another trip in the time machine recently. I went back to Calvin’s Geneva again. Okay. Not really. It was a Skype call with a friend from seminary: the Rev. Jerry McKinney. I interviewed him for a class I teach on forms of Christian community. But I’m telling you, the story of Jerry’s pastoral ministry is […]
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