Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as… — Peter J. Leithart Copy Share Image
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“Most churches do not grow beyond the spiritual health of their leadership. Many churches have a pastor who is trying to lead… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share Image
“An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a… — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
The year of 2004 will be known as the year of fullness. By the close of 2004, all callings will come to… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
“The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
“Whereas the public means of grace (such as church services) will do a lot of good to other Christians, those of us… — Thomas K. Ascol Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential… — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
“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… — Dave Harvey Copy Share Image
“Put this in your 'pastoral' pipe and smoke it!!!" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul’s address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church,… — Eckhard J. Schnabel Copy Share Image
“As someone who has spent the last decade training young men and women for Christian service, I have been keen to help… — Christopher Ash Copy Share Image
“Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“Don't just cry over your 10 or 20 member church. Sometimes, God gives you your future first. The ones you call little… — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel Copy Share Image
“A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Pope Francis has helped me to focus once again on the joy in my pastoral ministry. He has challenged me genuinely to… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Based upon the fundamental Christian conviction that men can change as the Spirit works within them, we must insist upon the idea… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
