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I am grateful to read this 40 days of devotional on pastor and pastoral ministry. Especially after more than ten years of practice, it is time to make some sort of conclusion for the first period in m ...

There are things better to have guidelines. Recently we leadership team discussed how to handle people who want to rent our church for wedding. There was a couple wanting to rent the church but they a ...

Church discipline is indeed the most difficult part of church ministry. In our area, we frequently saw church lay leaders even disciplining pastors. It was sad to see such a painful process, especial ...

As pastors we are lonely. We need to make decision whether to â€œsallow the red pillâ€ (a class scene in the movie of â€œThe Matrixâ€) for being more truthful to ourselves and to the ...

I once confronted with a couple in our church, when theyâ€™d been invited to join a local Unitarian Universalist gathering. On a particular Sunday they missed our church service for going to the ...

Two years ago an incident broke up in our Baptist church. A devotional and highly respected Christian couple decided to join our church membership. It is a good thing to see your congregation having d ...

Itâ€™s pleased to know the author once brought bibles and materials to pastors in Mainland China. When young I heard of report from my pastors some missionaries did have such a ministry bringing ...

After years of preaching and teaching, the passion for preparation may somehow die out. Rarely counsel with commentaries. Avoid Greek or Hebrew. Study the audience to earn their approval instead of a ...

I share Our Daily Bread on our church social media, WeChat. I share the devotional as frequent as possible in the group chatting. I also see other pastors sharing in a similar way. It is a trend now. ...

The call of a pastor is compassion. Without compassion we may be a good Bible teacher but not pastor. Compassion made Jesus different from the Pharisees. To be like Jesus as pastor, we are called for ...

The first chapter reminds me of Psalm 91:5,6â€” â€œYou will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that ...