Swim for Your Life

Our society is not a community radiant with the love of Christ, but a dangerous network of domination and manipulation in which we can easily get entangled ...

What Went Wrong?

In the pastor's office: "Brother Helvey is here with the black box from last night's sermon to see if we can find out what went wrong." ...

Study More, Speak Less

If you ask me how you may shorten your sermons, I should say, study them better. Spend more time in the study that you may need less time in the pulpit. ...

Pride in the Pulpit

When pride has written the sermon, it goes with us to the pulpit.

Keep It Short

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

Scheduling Meetings with God

The task of pastoral ministry is, above all else, to arrange the contingencies for an encounter with the Divine.

Pastors Don't Pout

Pastor, at home, to his wife: "Spiritual leaders do not pout. They may become vexed in their spirits, but they do not pout!"

No One Here but Us Sinners

All the holy men seem to have gone off and died. There's no one left but us sinners to carry on the ministry.

The Danger of Ambition

The Christian who is ambitious to be a star disqualifies himself as a leader.

Good News, Bad News

Pastors hear news all the time. Some of it's good, and some of it's, well, not so good...

GOOD NEWS:

Now that you have an associate, you don't ...