Put this in your 'pastoral' pipe and smoke it!!!" ~R. Alan…

Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be…

— Sara Maitland

“Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as…

— Peter J. Leithart

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab…

— Matt Chandler

“Most churches do not grow beyond the spiritual health of their leadership. Many churches have a pastor who is trying to lead people to…

— Darrin Patrick

“An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

— C. J. Mahaney

The year of 2004 will be known as the year of fullness. By the close of 2004, all callings will come to fullness. Apostles…

— Kenneth Copeland

“The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”

— Wayne Cordeiro

“Whereas the public means of grace (such as church services) will do a lot of good to other Christians, those of us who are…

— Thomas K. Ascol

“I am not an 'elder', 'deacon', nor a 'pastor', and I do not have any ambitions to become one!". ~R. Alan Woods {2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our…

— Wayne Cordeiro

“Let’s face it. If you’re called to pastoral ministry, you’re being called to the local church. It’s where we move from being doughnut lovers…

— Dave Harvey

“The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul’s address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church, but the…

— Eckhard J. Schnabel

“As someone who has spent the last decade training young men and women for Christian service, I have been keen to help them see…

— Christopher Ash