Elder Plea

This picture is an illusion. There’s actually six of us…broken men who seek the Lord and plead for our people. The idea of elders isn’t popular right now — a …

10 Signs You Are Burning Out

“Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches…I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.”—2 Corinthians 11:28, …

Do You Feel Like a Pastoral Fraud?

Do you ever feel like a fake? A fraud? Like the self-portrait you’ve painted for others is a rip-off of somebody else? Someone more holy, more pure—less Pharisaical, more Spurgeon-esque? …

Navigating the Mess

Ministry leaders will have days like this one I had recently: I talked with someone who was on the tail end of being mad at God and at me, spoke …