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Tag: Pastors

It’s Time to Start Sacrificing

*Much time, prayer, and effort has gone into this piece of writing. It is much longer than my typical writings because it would,…

Posted On 19 Nov 202024 Nov 2020

Demystify Your Pastor With The Small Catechism

We all know pastors can be a bit mystifying sometimes.  Growing up in a small congregation with fairly high pastor turnover, that’s what…

Posted On 22 Jun 201721 Jun 2017

Pastors and Laymen in the Storm

I remember 2011 as a burnishing year, like nothing I’ve ever endured before. Not even the death of my only brother could compare….

Posted On 24 Jun 20166 Jun 2016

“The ‘I’ of the Sermon”

For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. (2 Corinthians 4: 5) “The…

Posted On 17 Mar 201622 Mar 2016

Bishop Tyranny and Heresy (Part 2)

In part 1, we saw how a congregation of my friends suffered the tyranny of a bishop concerning their pastoral vacancy, and the…

Posted On 13 Aug 20154 Aug 2015

Bishop Tyranny and Heresy (Part 1)

Some friends in a Lutheran congregation of a different synod from mine have been in a long pastoral vacancy. The bishop expressly refused…

Posted On 6 Aug 20156 Aug 2015

The Church in Need – A Hard Look at Giving – Guest post by Vanessa

Thanks to Vanessa for this guest post.  For more by Vanessa check out her regular blog: Bible, Beer, and Babies. No one likes…

Posted On 19 Dec 201419 Dec 2014

Your Pastor Is Not A CEO, A Shopkeeper Catering To Ill-defined Spiritual Needs, Or A Rancher

Under the impact of modernity there are significant pressures brought to bear on the pastoral office that would make the office something other…

Posted On 10 Jan 201410 Jan 2014

What’s Good for the Goose…

Last week, I had to do one of the most humiliating things a pastor has to do. At least I found it that…

Posted On 22 Dec 201320 Dec 2013

Pastoral Death Match — Social Media and the Ministerium.

It doesn’t take long being Facebook “friends” with a bunch of pastors to see it unfold – fighting, feuding, snark, mockery, and downright…

Posted On 13 Dec 201313 Dec 2013

Letters From The “Becoming Lutheran Research Participants” To Lutheran Pastors And Journeying Evangelicals

As many of you know, I have been working on a Major Applied Research Project over the last two years examining the journey…

Posted On 30 Aug 201330 Aug 2013

Pastors Are Not To Subject God’s People To “Their Laws and To The Works Ordained By Them,” But To God’s Word Alone

Pastors are called to be servants of the flock. The congregation elects pastors. The congregation calls pastors. The congregation ordains pastors. Since this…

Posted On 22 Feb 201320 Feb 2013

Pastoral Authority: Teaching by means of supervising or supervising by means of teaching?

In Acts 20:28, Paul tells the elders in Ephesus, “Pay special attention to yourselves and of all the flock in which the Holy…

Posted On 14 Apr 201216 Sep 2018

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