If you are a small church pastor, we want to give you the gift of a few days away in a quiet setting where you can be refreshed. This retreat is designed especially for the leader of a small church…
A Pastor’s Wife: Sometimes It’s Just Hard
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/1291924.htm Blog by My Wife, Gloria The tears rolled down my face as I drove along the highway. This was not how I had planned my life to be. I had very definite ideas about my role as a pastor’s…
Called To Be Small
Called to Be Small I have started reading a book by Karl Vaters entitled Small Church Essentials. I just read a few pages when one paragraph caught my attention. Vaders says this: “Instead in the last generation or…
Commercialism vs. Commitment
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/221860.htm I have always had an interest in history and politics. My first memories of American politics was the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. After a series of older men in the office, Kennedy brought an energy and excitement…
Defining Greatness: Part II
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/689166.htm Last week I shared with you a quote from Zack Eswine’s book entitled The Imperfect Pastor. I want to share that quote again this week and comment on a different part of it. “The point I’m making is this.…
Defining Greatness
Burks Falls Youth Group – about 1968 – Elwood in front and Bonnie in pink on the right. Ron must have taken the picture. As a requirement for a program on which I am working, I have to read a…
Learning From My Mistakes: Mistake # 4
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/554925.htm Over the past few weeks I have shared with you three mistakes that I made in ministry and some of the lessons that I learned from those mistakes. I decided that I had better stop with one final mistake…
Learning From My Mistakes: Mistake # 3
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/62810.htm In every aspect of life popular fads come and go. When they have had their moment in the sun, they usually leave no more impact on society than the hole created when someone dips a hand in the ocean.…
Learning From My Mistakes: Mistake # 2
We live in an age of instant response. People become upset if they have to wait even a few seconds for something to appear on their computer screen. Everything in our homes comes on instantly when we press the on/off…
Learning From My Mistakes: Mistake # 1
http://clipart-library.com/clipart/410225.htm If we are supposed to learn from our mistakes, I should be a very wise person by now in that I have made lots of them over my years of ministry. Over the next few weeks I am going…