Church administration should not impede fruitful ministry, but rather provides processes and safeguards that assist us to be good stewards.

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The important business of spiritual accountability is a personal commitment to account to others for our actions.

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One of the courses that most surprised me in seminary was cultural theology.

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I wasn’t prepared for this statement: “Moses was an amazing leader who never reached his redemptive potential.” I was half asleep, listening to religious TV, when this comment jolted me fully awake. No way, I thought. Put that on some other Bible character, not Moses. I immediately thought of all the virtues ascribed to Moses […]

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And how grateful we are to Pastor Jack, to Dr. Stanley, and to Tim Keller, for their example, for finishing with their torch still lit, reminding us that doing so is well within our reach.

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I heard my inner voice repeatedly telling me to keep it together, but his tears and quivering lower lip pushed me over the edge. A warm tear drop fogged my vision and rolled past my glasses down my cheek. He could barely get the words out, “I can’t believe I let myself do that. I […]

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There are an estimated 380,000 churches in the United States. In the vast majority of these churches, the pulpit and the sermon take center stage (literally) in each week’s service. If each sermon were an average of just 30 minutes, that’s a whopping 190,000 hours of preaching in the United States each week! Add mid-week […]

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The church has been my world. It has been my primary social circle, the highlight event of my week, and the most rewarding place to labor. Church has been my safe sanctuary from a declining culture. No longer. [bctt tweet=”Church has been my safe sanctuary from a declining culture. No longer. – Loren Gjesdal” via=”no”] […]

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Coronations don’t happen often, and they remind us that ultimately, it is God who sets up kings and removes them (Daniel 2:21).

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I still have embarrassing memories of the grades in the writing courses I have taken in the past, but I sincerely believe taking a writing course benefits leaders and the people they serve.

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We are a society in trauma, in desperate need of the healing Jesus offers. We read in John 5:6: “When Jesus saw [the man] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well? ‘” John’s parenthetical note in verse 5 that […]

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The Christian leader operates a quadrangle of church administration with pastoring, administration, preaching, and education.

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