Sep 21, 2018 | Inspiration, Perspectives
You’ve been through a tough season of pain. You’re finally beginning to heal and discover hope again. You feel like you’re beginning to understand the meaning of the word, Resilient. You are bouncing back from the unthinkable, but you still crave...
Sep 19, 2018 | Refreshment
When the early Wesleyan bands of Christ-followers got together in small group meetings, their first question to each other was “How is it with your soul?” This is the best possible question for us as Christian leaders in light of Jesus’ warning and in light of what we...
Sep 17, 2018 | Devotion, Pastor's Life
“So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the down; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:3 NASB The passage encourages us to “press on to know the...
Sep 12, 2018 | Perspectives
As a baby boomer, enough of the 1960s rubbed off on me to make me willing to question everything. I still believe there are absolutes, however, no matter how politically incorrect that may be, the cataclysm of the Sixties started long before. You could say it began...
Sep 10, 2018 | Inspiration, Perspectives
One of 12 Faithful Men The Salvation & Struggles that Shaped a Living Legacy Charles Simeon was the pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge, England as well as a fellow at King’s College Cambridge, from 1783 to 1836. Simeon was a well known As a model Bible...
Sep 7, 2018 | Inspiration, Perspectives
A look at the letter of Jude Too often we hear of another pastor falling, another story of moral failure. I wonder how many similar stories remain untold from among the hundreds of thousands who attend church every Sunday. How many teens in good youth groups...
Sep 6, 2018 | Perspectives
Your time on earth is limited. No matter how much this idea makes you squirm, it’s a fact. No matter who you are, how young or old, what measure of success you’ve attained, or where you live, mortality remains the great equalizer. With each tick of the clock, a moment...
Sep 5, 2018 | Family, Refreshment
One way to connect with other people is to disconnect from technology from time to time. I’m a techie, and I love my gadgets. But a few years ago, I became a reluctant convert to the discipline of disconnecting. The insidiousness of having work with me wherever I...
Apr 11, 2018 | Pastor's Life
This post was originally featured on www.cityonahillstudio.com. Pastor Resources is reposting it here in hopes that it will be useful to our pastors. In the movie, The Father of the Bride, Steve Martin tells his daughter, Annie, she should put her jacket on because...
