Have you ever been paralyzed by how overwhelming something in life can be? You look at the sheer size of the obstacle in front of you, and think, “It’s impossible! There’s no way I can do all of this.” I think we’ve all been there: The relationship is too broken. The debt is too big….
I’m not an emotional guy. My wife would attest that I can be emotionally dense. So I often don’t understand why I have feelings (or even that I have them at all) until much later. One of the major things I was unprepared for entering into ministry is the emotional toll that it would take…
Do you know who the richest person in the world is? In March, Forbes came out with their 2018 list of the richest people in the world, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, dethroned Bill Gates as the wealthiest man in the world with a net worth of 112 billion dollars. Can you imagine…
If you are on my email list, you got a little inside info into what’s going on with my work last week. I was overwhelmed with hundreds of responses, and I cannot thank you all enough for your help and encouragement. In a nutshell, I’ve been wrestling for months with feeling that God is calling…
A recent Pew Research Center poll titled “Why Americans Go (and Don’t Go) to Religious Services” caught my attention this week. There’s a lot of information, but here’s what I gleaned from it: Among adults who attend church services at least once or twice a month, when asked to rank reasons they attend as very…
I’ll never forget my first funeral sermons. I was a young pastor on the pastoral care rotation at a large church, and I panicked when I got the call that a young mother of three in our church had passed after a long battle with cancer. Over four hundred people would be in attendance, and…
“Will you perform our wedding?” Few questions bring a greater sense of honor and anxiety wrapped into one. As a pastor for ten years, I’ve performed my share of weddings, and I still get a bit nervous. So if you’ve never done it before, it’s incredibly intimidating. So how do you perform a wedding? Here’s…
When I first became a pastor, I knew that performing weddings was part of the job. But nobody ever taught me how to do it in Bible college. You’d think that would be a requirement. So when a young couple asked me to officiant their wedding, I panicked. I’d never done a wedding before! Where…
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