In a time when churches are navigating cultural shifts, financial pressures, and evolving expectations of leadership, bivocational pastoral ministry is… READ MORE
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Sarah Catherine Martin, the daughter of a baronet wrote a nursery rhyme which went on to have legs of its… READ MORE
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.… READ MORE
“Many of us [in the church] are like porcupines trying to huddle together on a bitter cold night to keep… READ MORE
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” G.K. Chesterton. READ MORE
Baptists pride themselves in the distinctive of the priesthood of all believers. But it’s a fib. It’s a priesthood of… READ MORE
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” said JFK. That in a nutshell… READ MORE
Of all Alexander Pope’s body of poetry, it is his 1732 poem An Essay on Man that left us with the… READ MORE
“When the work of shepherding leads us to pride, judgment, superiority, or deception, we have forgotten that we are a lamb. A shepherd who is not first a lamb is a dangerous shepherd and has ceased to follow the Good Shepherd. Our primary identity in life, if we are to be eternal value to the Father, is not that of a shepherd but that of a lamb.”
Diane Langberg – Redeeming Power – Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church
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