First person: Celebrating the people you serve, love
May 17, 2025
One of the joys of pastoring is celebrating the milestone achievements of the people you serve and love.
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First person: Refocusing on the main thing
May 16, 2025
New Coke was a colossal failure. In 1985, after decades as a premier global brand producing the world’s most popular soft drink, the Coca-Cola Company’s
First person: How to fail forward — one step at a time
May 13, 2025
Failure has a way of getting into our heads if we’re not careful. It sneaks in through the side door, whispering things like “You’re not enough” or “You’ll never get it right.”
First person: Confessions of a first-year pastor
May 13, 2025
As I’ve reflected on the first year of shepherding my congregation, here are four confessions that in the Lord’s kindness may benefit every pastor, minister, leader, and lay person.
First person: Pastors and ministry leaders, stop drinking your own Kool-Aid
May 12, 2025
When the problem is with the leader, in almost every case, it starts when that pastor or ministry leader starts drinking his or her own Kool-Aid.
Your Voice: Things my mom taught me about church
May 9, 2025
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First person: Still watching for Baptist smoke
May 8, 2025
I’m thinking about our own Baptist conclave coming soon.
First person: Is simply ‘loving Christ and loving others well’ really the answer?
May 6, 2025
Loving people well and learning to consistently become more Christ-like means personally, deeply and genuinely investing in the community around us.
First person: Mom had some pretty tough rules. Here’s what I learned.
May 1, 2025
“Along the way, my mom had some pretty tough rules that have mostly fallen out of fashion since those days. But after a few decades, I wonder if they weren’t so bad.”
First person: God uses small churches to do big things on mission
April 27, 2025
We tend to jump to, “Let’s go overseas,” instead of going across the street to talk to your neighbors. I think every church has to ask, “God, how can we serve for Your glory, at the size that we are, to the community You planted us in?”
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