They Will Hear: The Promise that Propels Mission

Discouragement is inevitable when we serve in the mission of the church. We see worldly systems that, with sophistication and accuracy, promote sin and hinder the gospel. We see people show interest in the good news, but they remain unpersuaded. We see the darkness of satanic addiction and brokenness strangling families and communities, and it is called “progress”. We, the local church, may be just a small candle in hundreds (or thousands) of square kilometres of thick darkness. There are declining numbers of people going into pastoral ministry and cross-cultural gospel work. And if all that wasn’t enough, we have...

Matt Fraser

Be the Predictable Pastor

Reuben Bredenhof

Is A Pastor the Same Thing as an Elder?

Paul Carter

Sharing Without Shipwrecks

Andrew VanderPloeg

Where the Gospel Still Costs Everything

Steve Lambert

The Problem with Leaders

Darryl Dash

Even the best human leaders are flawed and will ultimately fail us.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? T.T. Shields, Benjamin Beddome, and Pastoral Transitions

Scott Hurst

There can be a strange vibe of secrecy surrounding a pastor’s move to a different church. I am not speaking from statistics, but from my experience in the evangelical Baptist world. A pastor’s current congregation, minus a select few, is often unaware of and not involved in the process until the day they hear their beloved pastor announce his resignation and intent to move. I wonder if there is a better way? Recently, I read Leslie Tarr’s biography of T. T. Shields, Shields of Canada, and the recently published book, Long May Thy Servant Feed Thy Sheep, by Yuta Seki,...