Pastoral
A Veteran Minister’s Regrets (About His Sermons)
Joe McKeever  Southern Baptist preacher. Joe ‘officially’ retired in 2009 yet still finds the time to draw a daily cartoon for the Baptist Press The original article can be found here! Joe writes: I’m a veteran. A veteran minister. I received the call to preach in April of 1961, which means we have recently passed the half-century […]
Heaven
“……keep your fork” Woman and a Fork There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things ‘in order,’ she contacted her Pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final […]
Top 10 Reasons Why Men Shouldn’t Be Ordained
June 26, 2009 10. A man’s place is in the army. 9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent. 8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural†for […]
Pastors under Pressure
Paul Beasley-Murray, Pastors under Pressure, Spurgeon’s Booklet, 1989 This little 84-page booklet was written by someone who knows what he’s talking about. He’s suffered/endured the stresses of pastoral leadership, taught pastors-to-be (as principal of the [Baptist] Spurgeon’s College, London) and – still fairly rarely, unfortunately – *really* believes in the ministry of the whole church […]
Derek Tidball: Preacher, keep yourself from idols (IVP 2011)
For the last half-century every decade has witnessed the publication of a landmark book on the art of preaching. From memory, roughly in chronological order: W E Sangster’s The Craft of the Sermon; James Stewart’s Heralds of God (he was selected by Preaching Magazine as the 20th century’s greatest English-language preacher), John Stott’s I Believe in Preaching, John Claypool’s The Preaching Event (he’s the […]
Machine Gun Preacher
Sightings 10/3/2011 — Martin E. Marty Preachers, pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams number in the hundreds of thousands in the United States. They minister at the borders between what get tabbed “sacred†and “secular†realms,  and as such cannot go unnoticed in public media. Some critics in the culture wars complain that they too often do get […]
Stress and Burnout in Pastoral Ministry: A Prologue
A couple of years ago one of our Australian State Baptist Unions asked me to summarize what I’d learned in 30 years talking to pastors and ex-pastors. Here’s an excerpt from my introduction to the manual they commissioned me to write [1]. Today it’s both easier and harder to be a pastor. Easier, because we […]
Worship Wars
A Rant from a Loser in the Worship Wars By Chaplain Mike UPDATE: I’m not sure if some of you did not read the post carefully or if I communicated poorly, but I want to clarify something. This post is NOT about music styles and what styles are better or worse. This post is ultimately […]
There’s an Elephant in the Room: Pastoral Ministry
by Robert Griffith “I had no idea just how irrelevant the church has become …†Those words rang in my ears long after the phone call ended. I had been talking to a Bible College buddy of mine who had recently resigned from Pastoral Ministry after nearly 20 years. I wish I could say his […]
THE MINISTRY AND THE MISTRESS
by Mike Robinson I had anticipated this moment with an emotional mixture of intimidation and challenge. The intimidation was generated by the fact that I was standing before a large group of my fellow pastors and I was to deliver the opening address at our annual Pastors’ Conference. The element of challenge found its focus […]
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