I know this might sound like a shock to some, but pastors are just like anybody else. Despite what some may think (or how some preachers may portray themselves), the men who stand behind pulpits every Sunday delivering sermons are on the same spiritual level as the congregants who sit in the pews. There are [...]
Ray Ortlund is Lead Pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. I met him in Louisville last year at the Acts 29 Network Boot Camp. His zeal for Christ is unmistakable, and he’s the type of man you would do well to sit under for discipleship if you could make it happen. He recently posted [...]
Don’t be a preacher…
…if you are thin-skinned. It’s a given that people will take shots at your sermons, even more so, they will take shots at you. Get tough or get gone.
…if you are lazy. Preaching is work. No matter how gifted you are, studying and preparing well should regularly take hours out of your [...]
For those who want to help the churches in Haiti in the wake of the devastation of the earthquake, I submit to you the following organizations.
Bright Hope – an organization whose mission is to provide for the physical, economic and spiritual needs of people living at the lowest economic level through personal, empowering, holistic, local [...]
Christians should be good at thankfulness. I’m not saying they are. I’m saying they should be. They are people who, because of their great sin, have existed with a gulf between them and God, but, because of God’s great love, “now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by [...]
