Know Your Strengths

Few of us really know our strengths. The great teachers, and great leaders, recognize strengths and focus on them.

The Ripening of Mr. Simeon

I don't think I have yet mentioned one of my great heroes, Charles Simeon. Charles Simeon was the senior pastor, or vicar, as we call it in the Episcopal ...

Hearing the Voice of God

So long as the church pretends or assumes to preach absolute values, but actually preaches relative and secondary values, it will merely hasten the process ...

Open Eyes, Closed Ears

Too often, when leaders open their eyes to a vision, they close their ears to people.

Luther's Target Audience

When I preach I regard neither doctors nor magistrates, of whom I have above forty in my congregation; I have all my eyes on the servant maids and on ...

Nourishing Sermons

In a recent issue of GLASS Window, a contributor recalls that several years ago, The British Weekly published this provocative letter:

"Dear Sir: ...

The Minister Never Knows

A minister often thinks he is most effective for God in the pulpit on that Sunday morning when he is preaching an eloquent sermon after hours of preparation. ...

When God Interrupts Ministry

You find God's presence in surprising places.

The way pastors work, we easily confuse an outboard motor for the wind of the Spirit. We are God-called ...

The Value of a Penny

Steve Sjogren is the pastor of a Vineyard in Cincinnati, Ohio. One Monday morning he was feeling particularly discouraged and announced to his wife Janie, ...

Study Overdose

You know you're spending too much time in the study

• When thou speaketh to thy children and helpmate thusly.
• When you start seeing the evening paper laid out in chapters and verses.