We are pastors, and when we have a hard message, and we know the effect it will have, our hearts shift.
Category: discipline
Cal Newport helps us see how to restrict ‘shallow work’ and its distractions, to work productively, and at depth.
The body God has given us to serve him has physical needs, and if we neglect those needs, we are not being good stewards.
It’s a biblical truth that the ten emails in your inbox this morning will each require you to focus more than the ten emails you had this time last year. The days of a quick ‘yup’ email decrease. The costs of getting the reply wrong, rise.
Moses first of all points us to Christ, and then allows us to learn a vital lesson: Leadership decisions are the hard ones, because the easy ones have already been dealt with. The reason that issue is sitting on your desk is because, if anyone else could have cracked it, they would have done.
Our church leadership is going through the process of developing a plan for the next five years, and setting some (we hope) Christ-honouring and ambitious goals for that period. We are forming task groups, and working together to produce something for this autumn. I was trying to explain it to someone this morning, and I
