Articles
I’ve written about 50 articles for Preaching Today, Leadership Journal, and CT Pastors. Below are a few of my favorites. If you’d like to browse all my articles at their website, click the button below.
Ordinary Pastors
There they are—our forefathers, our kind of people. Ordinary, plain, common. And no matter how good our education, the secret to gospel ministry has never ...
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Ordinary People
I’m often struck by how ordinary church people are. That’s not a put-down. I admire the ingenuity of our disguises.
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Foundational Words
We work as subcontractors, you might say, at a construction site. Maybe that would be clearer if someone stretched a chain-link fence around the church ...
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The Oof of It
Picture a dad stretched out on the living room floor right after dinner, eyes closed, hands behind his head, just relaxing. Then out of nowhere, ...
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Mercy Me
Some hurts can be forgotten but others cannot and should not be stuffed down. Wounds fester and lead to grudges, a besetting sin of pastors. ...
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A Kingdom Paradox
It’s still hard for the Lord’s disciples, us included, to grasp that only those who come to Jesus with their spiritual pockets turned out have ...
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