Walking on what! Does God really call us to get out of the boat?
This is a copy of my mornings blog post. I often hear it bandied around in church circles that God wants his people to get out of the boat. The idea behind it, is that God wants us to get out of our...
View ArticleA Ministry Pastors Need to Know About
Kevin is doing a great work at Christ Connection Ministry. Hear his heart for pastors and prayer.
View ArticleDreaming and Praying Big
There needs to come a time in our lives as pastors where we allow God to drop something big in our hearts. It’s not us. It’s not “numbers.” It’s not about ego or doing something great for something...
View ArticlePraying Well
Today in our Adult Sunday School we were discussing prayer and my mind was taken to how we as the Church might pray well. We seem to have a penchant for and pride in our “free” prayers as Evangelicals...
View ArticleWhy Prayer Is Not Important
Once again, our adult Sunday School class was studying prayer in the Scripture this morning and my mind was taken with the many directions of our conversations with the Scripture. But one thing that...
View ArticleA Prayer for Pastors
The collect of the day was fairly pointed, so I wanted to share it: Almighty God, who in the place of the traitor Judas chose your faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the Twelve: preserve...
View ArticleA Praying People.
Today I want to write about my observations about prayer. The highest calling within our pastoral call is that of prayer. We are called to be prayers. Not only are we to be prayers, we are also called...
View ArticleWhat I Pray For You
Today I want to pray for rest and renewal in the lives of pastors. We get dinged up along the way. It’s not always people. Sometimes it’s just circumstances. It’s life. We don’t get enough rest. We get...
View ArticleThe Joy of “The One”
This past week I have been reminded of some very valuable lessons in “blue chip” pastoring. It’s not about the masses. It is often about the one. Sunday night it was sitting with someone hearing their...
View ArticlePastoral Leadership Through Prayer
The following is a portion of a post by Dr. Kevin Bauder on the manner in which a pastor exercises leadership through prayer. The role of pastor has been recast during the past generation. Some...
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