Your Choices Matter

A Vocation Unlike Most: A Pastor’s Charge to Fellow Pastors

January 25, 2020 by Peter Dubbelman Leave a Comment

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 »

“The Mark of a Great Athlete is to Be Bruised Yet Still Conquer”: A Vocation Unlike Most

January 10, 2020 by Peter Dubbelman Leave a Comment

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 »

What Is Success?

December 16, 2016 by Peter Dubbelman 2 Comments

This is the last post in a series about godly choices, all based on Jesus’ wilderness temptation. The below thoughts summarize preceding points and address Jesus’ last test: Matt 4:8–11. Read More »

It’s Risky Not Reckless

June 26, 2016 by Peter Dubbelman 5 Comments

This is my fifth post about making godly choices, all based on Jesus’ wilderness temptation; this blog flows forth from the thoughts of the last one, It’s Tricky! Faith filled steps can be risky, but they’re not reckless. Had Jesus jumped off “the highest point of the temple” this would not have been an act of faith but one of […] Read More »

It’s Tricky!

May 27, 2016 by Peter Dubbelman 1 Comment

This is my fourth post about making godly choices, all based on Jesus’ wilderness temptation. The below thoughts come from his second test (Matt 4:5-7). Then the devil took him to the … highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and […] Read More »