Pray about what God would have you to do and ask for him to bring clarity to your situation.Check with your spouse and at least one pastor, counselor, or mentor. You don't do faith alone. You have a spouse and a church community for a reason. Use them to help guide your decisions...
My spiritual director and pastors. And there’s lots more on my list. Please make one yourself and spend time thanking God for what you have. You will feel much better. It might be fun to keep it, so you can compare it to next year’s list. You also can create a list of unanswe...
(Isn’t that what Facebook is for–sending birthday wishes to people you never would’ve acknowledged previously?) It just makes the overall feel slightly more…desperate?Christian Crushdefinitely has a better balance to asking good questions for finding like-minded Christians. The biggest reason w...
Having lived in Southern California for 30 years I was especially taken by the two songs “California Dreaming” and “I Wish they all could be California Girls.” As a pastor for many years the song “God Only Knows” was also an important reminder. It’s not just the music of the Be...
For years I had been gradually developing a new sense of vocation. I believe that academic historians write too much for each other, leaving the public to learn about the past from pastors, talk-show hosts, rap musicians, and other public celebrities. As a Christian historian, I have come...
very different work from being a church pastor. And, instead of a normal routine of local journeys, now I travelled all over Britain and to literally dozens of other countries. People in Oxfordshire thought I spoke strangely, remarking “You have an accent”. I learned to reply, “So you ...
Bill Johnson, Beni’s husband, and the senior pastor at Bethel, believes that: There are anointings, mantles, revelations, and mysteries that have lain unclaimed, literally where they were left because the generation that walked in them never passed them on. I believe it’s possible for us ...
Just in time for the first anniversary of Billy Graham’s death, Allison’s reflection on the life and work of America’s pastor is now available in paperback. This week’s blog feature the new preface by the author, new to this edition. — Surprise, surprise, surprise. Between the time...
(Chair of the Urban Studies Department and Director of the Center for Urban Youth Development Eastern University), Eugene Cho (Pastor and Co-Founder and Visionary of One Day’s Wages), and Shane Claiborne (author and Christian activist). There were also several musicians and other performers ...
After 20 years, Linda felt like giving up on her marriage—and just at that point, along came a man blessed with gifts in areas Tim lacks—their pastor. "He was gifted in communication and I felt a real connection with him," Linda says. "Soon I found myself looking for ways to spen...