Me encanta enseñar y predicar. Confío en mi llamado para hacerlo. Me siento dotado para hacerlo. Ciertamente estoy convencido de la importancia del trabajo. Pero en diferentes puntos, siento que me he estancado en efectividad como maestro de la Palabra de Dios. Supongo que muchos de ustedes que leen regularmente este blog también enseñan la…

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I love to teach and preach. I am confident of my call to do it. I feel gifted to do it. I am certainly convinced of the importance of the work. But at different points, it feels like I have plateaued in effectiveness as a teacher of God’s Word. I am guessing many of you…

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Este verano nuestra iglesia pasó todos los domingos reflexionando sobre las oraciones de Jesús y Pablo por la Iglesia. Pensé que la serie nos uniría mientras aprendíamos a orar los unos por los otros y sería una serie fácil de seguir para aquellos que estaban entrando y saliendo con viajes de verano. Lo que no…

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This summer our church spent every Sunday reflecting on the prayers of Jesus and Paul for the Church. I thought the series would draw us together as we learned to pray for one another and be an easy series to follow for those who were in and out with summer travels. What I didn’t anticipate…

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One of the ongoing challenges of ministry, particularly occupational ministry, is taking up the work God gives us to do without allowing it to become the primary driver of our identity. We all know the temptation, and gravitational pull on our hearts, to feel less valuable when things are going poorly and more valuable when…

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