Recently, I’ve been posting some tips to help pastors find the right job in a local church. This post is a continuation of the series. It’s about why you shouldn’t be shy or afraid to talk about money during the hiring process.
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I have many favorite Christmas memories, so it’s hard to pick the favorite. But here is one of them.
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Last week, my review of What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung was published in the theological journal Themelios. DeYoung’s book is not only my favorite book on the topic, it’s also my favorite book of 2015.
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“No Longer Slaves” is a popular Christian worship song. I often hear it on the radio, and we occasionally sing it at our church. Here are five reasons I love this song.
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Recently, I wrote a short story called "Lost in December." It's a story about having a busy schedule, experiencing a miscarriage, and discovering what's really important in life.
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In two days, millions of people will celebrate Thanksgiving. We’ll sit around a table, we’ll eat a hearty meal, and we’ll (hopefully) express our gratitude. This is a good thing. It’s healthy to remind ourselves of the many blessings that we have received. But this Thanksgiving, don’t make the mistake of not knowing who to thank.
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Recently, I’ve been posting some tips to help pastors find the right job in a local church. This post is a continuation of the series. It’s about what to do before you leave your current role, namely, finish like a champ.
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We spend lots of time talking about how to start church membership well, but we should also be discussing how to leave a church well. Here’s an excerpt from the Epilogue to the church membership book I wrote called, EACH PART WORKING PROPERLY.
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John Newton’s life is a spiritual, gourmet grocery store, and author Tony Reinke spent several years selecting and preparing for us a splendid meal. It’s called Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ.
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An excerpt from the Introduction to the church membership book I wrote called, EACH PART WORKING PROPERLY.
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I’ve been writing a series of posts designed to help those looking for a job in Christian ministry. This is a continuation of the series, as well as background on why it’s important.
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I’ve been doing a blog series designed to help pastors find the right job in a local church. Here is the next installment of that series.
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The Joy Project by Tony Reinke was released earlier this week. You can download the book free of charge at Desiring God. Here are nine of my favorite passages in the book.
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I love Chipotle. I love chocolate. And I love authors who use words well. This week I read something that helped me appreciate all of these, and I think you should read it too.
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Recently, I posted several articles designed to help pastors find the right job in a local church. Over the course of the next month or two, I have 15 more tips that I will share in subsequent blog posts (three tips at a time). Here are the first three.
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A poem to celebrate that, in the gospel, we have far more than amnesty.
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A book review of TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD by Kevin DeYoung. As the subtitle suggests, it’s a great book to remind us that God’s Word is knowable, necessary, and enough—and practically why all of this matters.
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One of the most important things a candidate can do during the hiring process is ask good questions—lots and lots of good questions. To get you started, here are 101 of them.
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This is a continuation of my previous post on the topic.
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