The words of the Great Commission are well known: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded … Continue reading Following Jesus in All of Life | Influence Podcast
In the 1992 vice presidential debate, James Stockdale opened his remarks by asking, “Who am I? Why am I here?” The audience laughed, but his questions were (and are) serious. They concern identity and mission, respectively. This new year, many pastors are … Continue reading The Flourishing Pastor | Book Review
C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey 2021 ranked Abraham Lincoln first among the 44 men who have served as America’s chief executive. The survey ranks presidential effectiveness across 10 metrics, including public persuasion, crisis leadership, moral authority, and pursuit of equal justice. … Continue reading Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: Chris Railey outlines five things pastors should do every time they have a meeting with their board members. Build trust. Develop them. Pastor them. Listen to them. Leverage them. It must be a day for five-point lists, … Continue reading Friday’s Influence Online Articles
Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir (New York: HarperOne, 2011). $25.99, 336 pages. In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson tells “the story of my formation as a pastor and how the vocation of pastor formed me.” Peterson is best known as author of The Message, his “translation” of the Bible into “American words and metaphors and syntax.” He recently completed a five-volume series—“conversations”—about spiritual theology. And he has written numerous books about the pastoral vocation, the seedbed out of which all his other books has grown. This memoir narrates the journey of a Pentecostal kid from Montana becoming a … Continue reading “The Pastor: A Memoir” by Eugene H. Peterson
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