Last weekend I spoke at a retreat for the first time. As it was a holiday weekend, it required me to come up with five messages. I have never done more than one at a time, so this was a marathon for a young preacher like me. I decided not to take a seminary course [...]
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Okay, I’ll admit it. I believe in inerrancy. That is, I believe that the Scriptures are without error in their original autographs–in all matters, in history and fact as well as faith and practice. This is the Word of God. All Scripture is breathed by God (2 Timothy 3:16). Plainly put, God doesn’t make mistakes.
I’ve [...]
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Lately I’ve been realizing how lonely pastors can get. It’s strange… You’d think a pastor would be the last person to feel lonely. I mean, pastors are around people all the time, they are generally well-liked, and people are always talking with them. If you ask me to name a lonely profession, I’d think of [...]
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I’ve been asked to take a new ministry direction in my pastoral internship at Evergreen SGV this summer. My part-time internship becomes full-time during the summertime, and it is designed to give me more in-depth ministry experience. I will be implementing a new system of assimilating people into our church. As our church just recently [...]
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This past weekend I had two speaking engagements. I thought it would be crazy, and the week leading up to it was pretty tiring. But I realize that retreat speakers do three to four messages in a weekend, so it’s definitely doable. As a full-time student, I had to shift around my studies to allow [...]
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