Confidence is a necessary item, especially in young people. Looking over a few of the press clippings from when I was an undergraduate at Penn State University, I found my response to a newspaper editorial when I was only twenty years old and freshly appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania to serve on a University… Continue reading In good hands
Category: Leadership
Tailoring Ministry to the Individual
In this day of megachurches and churches spread across multiple campuses, is it really possible or even practical to care about the individual? Yet ministry is based on the model of a shepherd willing to leave a flock of ninety-nine sheep in an open field while searching for one lost sheep (Luke 15:3-7). In Chapter… Continue reading Tailoring Ministry to the Individual
The Gift of Presence
Scroll through the newsfeed on any platform and you will find people sharing happy moments in their lives as well as people facing tragedies and loss. On any given day, a pastor may go from celebrating the birth of a new child in the congregation to visiting a church member in a hospice. Whether in… Continue reading The Gift of Presence