An Interview with Francis Chan (Video)

Here is an interesting interview by Moira Brown of 100 Huntley Street in Canada with Francis Chan about his life and ministry and how God worked in both to radically change him. Be sure to watch both parts.

Pastoring Related Posts - January 23

Here are the top ten pastoring related blog posts I came across this past week. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. Pastoral Ministry is War - Paul Tripp (highly recommend this article)
2. 8 Reasons Why Some Churches Don’t Grow - Perry Noble
3. Elders: The Church’s Lead Disciple-Makers - Jeramie Rinne
4. From the Shepherd’s Nook: The Pastor’s Mt Everest - Scot McKnight
5. The Best Leadership Development in the World - Chuck Musslewhite
6. How Andy Stanley and Tim Keller Preach with Non-Believers in Mind - Trevin Wax
7. 10 Mistakes Teaching Pastors Need to Avoid - Tony Morgan
8. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader - Jason Young
9. One Pastor Shares His Leadership Mistakes - Carey Nieuwhof
10. 10 Characteristics of a Church on Mission - Scott Thomas

Pastoring Related Posts - January 14

Here are some more blog posts related to pastoring that I have come across recently. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. 16 Thing I Look For In a Preacher - Mark Driscoll
2. The Best Way to Welcome People to Church - Steve Kryger
3. Why Spurgeon Thought the Plain Preaching of the Gospel Was Sufficient to Grow a Church - Justin Taylor
4. Top Leadership Coaching Videos of 2012 - Mark Driscoll
5. My Top 12 Quotes from Tim Keller’s “Center Church” - Eric McKiddie
6. Avoiding Mistakes in Ministry - John Johnson
7. From the Shepherd's Nook - John Frye

Pastoring Related Posts - January 8

Here are some blog posts and one video related to pastoring I have come across recently. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. Sensing Jesus - Zack Eswine (21:13)
2. How to Start a Pastoral Training Program in Your Church - Mark Rogers
3. 3 Signs You Are Not a Kingdom Leader - David Finch
4. From the Shepherd’s Nook: Facing a New Year - John Frye
5. 3 Resolutions for Preachers - David Helm
6. Five Temptations Leaders Face - TJ Addington
7. When the Cause Replaces the Cross - Trevin Wax

Pastoring Related Posts - November 28

Here are the latest blog posts related to pastoring I have come across. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. Extend the Same Grace You Preach
2. What are 3 Common Areas of Neglect in a Pastor's Life?
3. The New Covenant (The Secret to Life and Ministry)
4. Pastor to Pastor: Lessons from Bonhoeffer
5. From the Shepherd's Nook: Prayer
6. Confession Time for Pastors
7. Dangerous Calling: An Interview with Paul Tripp
8. Proclaiming Gospel: Preaching on Sunday as Practice for the Rest of the Week
9. 5 Way to Fight Insecurity as a Pastor or Leader

Pastoring Related Posts - November 20

Here are the latest blog posts related to pastoring I have come across. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. Attitude is Worth More than Aptitude
2. The Conviction to Lead
3. What are 10 Practical Tools to Hospital Visitation?
4. 5 Ways to Fight Insecurity as a Pastor or Leader
5. Are You Building Healthy Systems
6. Pastors Who Over Function
7. Three Leadership Truths: Essential, Functional, Developmental

Pastoring Related Posts - November 13

Here are the latest blog posts related to pastoring I have come across. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. From the Shepherd’s Nook: Pain
2. When Tragedy Strikes Your Church
3. Vision - Part 2: Developing Vision
4. A New Format for Church Staff Meetings
5. 3 Questions to Ask of Your Sermon

Here's a quote from a Christianity Today article on the importance of the gospel for pastors that I read a long time ago but did not keep the link:

There's been a lot of talk about how the gospel is for Christians. Have we forgotten that the gospel is for pastors too?

Yes! I mean it has to be for pastors first. There's absolutely no way that our people will experience the liberating now-power of the gospel if the pastor doesn't even know what the liberating now-power of the gospel looks like. When I speak to pastors I say, "There is only one thing that will enable you to survive, and that's the gospel. It's not whether your church grows or not. It's not having the right leadership principle. All of those things might be helpful, but the gospel is the only thing that will save you in ministry." You inevitably face crises, slander, unfair criticism, pressure to perform in your professional and personal life. You have to have a model marriage. You've got to have the model children. You've got to be the one logging hours of private prayer every day. I mean there is heavy-duty pressure on pastors to be spiritual giants. What I love about the freeing, liberating power of the gospel is I can stand up on a Sunday morning without fear or reservation and be able to identify my own idols in front of my people. I'll say things like, "I hate to admit this, but part of my motivation for preparing the sermon that I am preaching today is because I want you to think I'm a good preacher. It accentuates my sense of worth." Is that embarrassing to admit? Absolutely! But it's incredibly liberating. I don't have to feel like I have to always be on, that I always have to be performing well, that every sermon's got to be a homerun, that I've got to be modeling perfect piety before all of our people. The pressure's off. Jesus measured up so I wouldn't have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others. And that's good news.

Pastoring Related Posts - November 9, 2012

Here are the latest blog posts related to pastoring I have come across. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. It's Dangerous in There, Pastors
2. Brothers, Train Up the Next Generation
3. 4 Liberating Truths for Those Who Pastor
4. Leaders are Defined by the Insignificant
5. Shepherding God's Flock (video)

Pastoring Related Posts - October 26, 2012

Here are the latest blog posts related to pastoring I have come across. If you are serving others or discipling someone you may find some good "food for thought" as well.

1. Pastors Who Know God
2. What are You Emphasizing When You Train Leaders?
3. Influence is More Than Access
4. Dealing with the Stress of Ministry
5. Paying the Cost

PRP - Pastoring Related Posts

Here are some links to blog posts about various aspects of pastoring but you don't have to be a official pastor to benefit from reading them. If you serve others in the name of Jesus you might find them beneficial.

1. Failure, Not Success, Make a Great Leader
2. 29 Things That Shape a Pastor's Ministry
3. How to Lead Young Men
4. If You Still Think You Have Arrived

PRP - Pastoring Related Posts

Here are links to three good blog posts related to pastoring that will give you some good "food for thought" whether you are an official "pastor" or just one who ministers to others.

1. I Am a Shepherd
2. If You Think You've Arrived
3. 5 Ways to Equipped the Church