Archives for January 2020

At the beginning of my pastoral career, an elderly pastor shared two key points with me: “Your vocation is unlike most. Your latter years of life can be your most effective ones.” I’m now decades away from this conversation, which proved to be invaluable to me. He unpacked his two key points by way of […] Read More »

Responding to God’s call to the pastorate is not for the faint of heart. To be a pastor, of course, is a great privilege — for it affords a person the opportunity to work intimately with “the great Shepherd of the sheep.” This vocation, however, is unlike most: Paul understood it to involve struggle, suffering, […] Read More »