Hint: They aren’t biblical.
Why do some people grow quickly and move on in the Christian life while others drift away or always seem stuck in neutral?
This is not simply a book of ‘advice’ from a pastor. This is a collection of letters from a man who knows what it means to be forgiven and redeemed by his Saviour.
One of the loudest voices I listen to is my own. And that’s usually not a good thing.
‘Spiritual abuse’, though not easy to define, must be taken very seriously.
There seems to be some sort of (urban?) myth that working with the poor is especially ‘hard’. As if somehow in the pantheon of Christian ministry, ours stands alone as the really difficult one.
The conversation about poverty is usually dominated by people with very little experience of being poor.
The hope my brother displayed every time he saw a car pass reminded me of the anticipation I was trying to suppress.
‘Sing songs of my God, He is full of grace. My rock, my refuge, He is my resting place’
Pastor, fight against the pride that fuels the hunger for pastoral glory.
According to Darren McGarvey, gentrification is basically “the practice of getting rid of any evidence that the community is working class.”