Tag: teacher
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Ministry Monday: Pastors as Helpers, not Heads
No, Your Pastor Isn’t the Leader of Your Church In our human nature, filled with sin, we are very prone to pride, even in ministry. Really in everything we do. You’ve heard the song, “Everybody wants to rule the world.” Such a statement is so true from our natural human hearts–before Christ redeems us, gives…
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Pastors as Helpers, Not Heads
No, Your Pastor Isn’t the Leader of Your Church In our human nature, filled with sin, we are very prone to pride, even in ministry. Really in everything we do. You’ve heard the song, “Everybody wants to rule the world.” Such a statement is so true from our natural human hearts–before Christ redeems us, gives…
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On Evaluating a Sermon
I know. It sounds really unspiritual to say we would ever evaluate someone’s sermon. If we are to follow Jesus, we need to know if what we hear from people is, in fact, from Him. It is not bad to think well about what we hear from the pulpit. There is good preaching. There is…
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Is Ambition Okay?
Is ambition godly? Here is a question I have struggled with throughout my public ministry. Starting out, my ambitions were selfish. I came to a point in ministry, 2018, where I gave up on all my ambitions and settled down. In 2019, doors started opening that had never been open to me before and I…
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Servanthood Discipleship
When we think about discipleship, we often think of it in terms of pop-culture rather than true biblical discipleship. We develop a model based more on the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker than the relationship that Jesus had with His disciples. Because of this trend in the church, we have developed this environment where…
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The evil named Tongue
The preacher stood to deliver his message. Little did his congregation know that he waited until Saturday night to begin preparing. We’ve heard that preachers only work 2 days a week. This guy took that literally. As a result, he had not studied the passage of Scripture well enough to teach it rightly. His sermon…
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Trusting in Tongues
This last week, Good Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, NC held a human scheduled revival in which we prayed for God to move. Though I am not sure the true benefit of having a human scheduled revival, I am sure that asking God to come and to move has powerful consequences, even if we…