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10 Mistakes Churches Make in Choosing a Pastor
1. Not choosing the right people for the pastoral search committee 2. Prayerlessness 3. Being people-centered rather than Word-centered 4. Lack of follow-through and due-diligence by the pastoral search committee 5. Impatience that leads to the wrong decision 6....
Helping Post-Christmas Melancholy
Each year Christmas night finds members of my family feeling some melancholy. After weeks of anticipation, the Christmas celebrations have flashed by us and are suddenly gone. And we’re left standing, watching the Christmas taillights and music fade into the night....
A Christmas Poem
In this smelly place he lay, Smelly like the swine, Smelly like the rotting hay, Like your sin, and mine. Do you see how low he lay? Do you see how low? There is lower yet to go. Lower yet to go. He is lying where they eat, Lying where the swine— Lying like a piece of...
Pastor, the Next Time You’re Tempted to Complain About Your Salary…
East Hampton was originally settled by the best sort of men, and had never been divided in religion. There was only one church in place, over which three successive pastors had been settled during a period of a century and a half. The first was Rev. Mr. James, the...
The Danger of Wanting to Be Important
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them … or they do not see it, or they justify it … because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of...
The Paradox of the Incarnation, Part 3
Conception: God became a fertilized egg! An embryo. A fetus. God kicked Mary from within her womb! Birth: God entered the world as a baby, amid the stench of manure and cobwebs and prickly hay in a stable. Mary cradled the Creator in her arms. "I never imagined God...
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