Last week I started reading Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky. The main premise behind the book is that creative people often are good at creating new and innovative ideas, but are bad at follow-through to reality. Belsky and his team researched various successful and creative people and […]
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Three Thoughts from a Rookie Youth Pastor
I have a confession to make. The reason I volunteered to work in youth ministry was so that I would have a legitimate reason to play Halo. It’s true. That was four years ago. Since then I’ve gone from being the Wednesday night chaperone to helping organize and run events. About a year and a […]
Being a Good Christian and Minister
JR Vassar, a pastor in New York, has a challenging and encouraging post on authentic pastoring. The basic summary of the article is that we can be great pastors, at least in terms of outward effectiveness, and still fail to be good disciples of Christ.