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Author and speaker Paul Tripp talks about why some pastors fall off course and turn away from Christ as the source of their identity in ministry. The solution is constantly preaching the gospel to yourself and keeping your Gospel Mind. What does that mean? Tripp explains. |
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Anxiety is common to all people, but it’s an occupational hazard for those of us in vocational ministry. The reason is that much of the anxiety we experience cannot be separated from the cares of our life multiplied exponentially by the cares of the people we serve. We are complex creatures who need God’s revelation to help us understand how anxiety works in our hearts and in our ministry. |
| If you are a pastor’s wife, you most likely have struggled with loneliness yourself, especially if you are part of a smaller congregation where there are no other pastors' wives to befriend. |
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There are many reasons a congregation could be having worship wars. Discovering these issues within your church is incredibly important. Why? It will provide you with the most significant discipleship moment. Instead of making an arbitrary ruling, you will take the time to be approachable, teachable, and a leader that values others. So how do we discover the different perspectives within the walls of our congregations? |
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Did you know that there are about 30 million professing Christian grandparents in North America? 30 million professing Christian grandparents! That’s a huge demographic, isn’t it? No doubt you have some of these folks in your church. Would you like to guess what percentage of Christian grandparents say that they have had biblical training in the ministry of grandparenting? Less than one percent! |
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This excerpt is part 2 of a four-part series in which Paul Miller addresses the importance of a praying church. Here, Miller answers three important questions: Why is the Spirit of Jesus so important? Why is prayer so central to the work of the Spirit? And what does this look like in a church? |
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Every year thousands of God’s servants leave the ministry convinced they are failures. Years ago, in the midst of a crisis of faith, Kent Hughes almost became one of them. But instead he and his wife Barbara turned to God’s Word, determined to learn what God had to say about success and to evaluate their ministry from a biblical point of view.
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