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.

Pitch Perfect Compassion

Some of us have one passage of Scripture we tune our ministry to. For me, it is Jesus’ story of the father and his two ...
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Compassion Fatigue

Ministry compassion takes a toll. Frederick Buechner wrote, “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin.”[i] ...
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One Thing Leads to Another

Compassion is a gateway grace. It is often someone’s first taste of Jesus. We tell them something good and true. We give them a glimpse ...
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Carriers of Compassion

Crowds came to Jesus who were crippled in body and soul, chosen people who had never heard that there was good news in God’s kingdom. ...
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What’s Become of Us

Pastors are responsible for making sure God’s people, aliens in this dark world, do not forget who we are.
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His Very Own

Right now, your people are diamonds in the rough, a scruffy bride, but they are precious beyond price to the Lord. Those saints whose names ...
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