Dear ______: Okay, glad to hear that you are closing in on a Field Education position for the coming term. I promised to write again with a couple further thoughts, so here you go. Choosing a field education position, take two Last time I recommended making sure you serve in both a large church and […]
Letters to a Young Pastor: Choosing a Field Education Placement
Dear ______: I’m glad that you have reached the point in your seminary education that you are having to think about field education. I don’t know what your seminary requires, but hopefully you will have to do at least two placements. Why two? Because your education will be more complete if you can see and practice […]
The Base Hit Sermon (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: Thanks for your note, which brings me back to the topic at hand: preaching. And baseball. A couple of letters ago I was musing about the “home run” sermon you heard from a famous preacher. I suggested that when you step into a pulpit, hitting a home run is not really a great […]
Summer Reading (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: Sorry I haven’t written for a while. Between some travels to speaking engagements and countless medical visits as my hand continues to recover I have not been able to quite keep up. But when you wrote that you had a guilty conscience I had to write back. If you were confessing an actual […]
Can You Hit a Home Run Sermon? (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: So, you went to hear The Great Preacher. He made you laugh. He made you cry. He left you with new insights about the Bible and your life. I’m not surprised. He is gifted, with well-honed skills. He left you feeling inadequate as a preacher. I’m not surprised about that either — though I […]
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