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GREEN PASTORS: The Myth of the Perfect Church
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The greener pasture is tilled and nurtured. If you cannot figure out how to raise a greener pasture where you are, you should be extra cautious about bringing whatever has made your pasture patchy to a place where it is healthy.
When I first stepped into the pastorate, I had big ideas about preaching, theology and mission. While those dreams were not wrong, they were incomplete. I wrestled with the tension between my expectations and reality early in ministry. I thought ...
STAND FIRM: The End Times is Just a Regional War (Part 10) - The Trumpets Before the Trumpets
We’re right in the middle of a three-part look at Second Temple literature — those writings from the time between the Old and New Testaments. While they’re not part of our Bible, they matter for this series because they show how people in Jesus’ day understood the Bible. What they expected wasn’t vague global collapse, it was the same pattern we’ve seen in every section of Scripture — a...