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Finding Your Pastoral Mentor on Canvas
Camille Pissarro, “Peasant Woman and Child Harvesting the Fields, Pontoise,” oil on canvas, 1882. “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”[1] Those...
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A Promise to the Persecuted Church Today
Sermon on the Mount – Brancoveanu Monastery (Photo credit: Fergal of Claddagh) Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting a new student at RTS who has sacrificed much to come to this seminary to prepare...
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Are You Called to be a Military Chaplain?
Frequently I am asked to share my experience of the call to the chaplain ministry. In my case, I have served and continue to serve as a US Army Reserve chaplain, not an active duty chaplain. Yet the...
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Why This Presbyterian is Praying for the Next Pope
The picture on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal, page A13, has a picture of lightning flashing over St. Peter’s Basilica from last Monday when Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would step...
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Considering a Call Amidst the Clamor of Bigger is Better
Dear Students of the Pastoral Ministry: Charles Haddon Spurgeon had it right when he commented on Zechariah 4:10: “It is a very great folly to despise ‘the day of small things,’ for it is usually...
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The Wordsmith Journal Magazine Interview
The following interview was conducted by veteran journalist Mary Nichelson of TheWordsmithJournalMagazine.com and appears at http://www.thewordsmithjournalmagazine.com/interviews.html. Quoting from...
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Thoughts on Faith from a Garden in March and Pastoral Ministry
One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145.4 NIV) For a gardener, like myself, March is an in-between month. The dried, gray-brown stalks on the...
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A Call To Repent And Believe In Jesus Christ
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord (Acts 3.19) Not too long ago I saw a bumper sticker that announced, “Jesus is the...
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Being a Pastor and Speaking Out in Today’s Culture
A pastor I know recently told me that he was criticized for being “too political.” He has heard such an indictment all his ministry, he said. Today he leads a major ministry in America and battles...
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Why Expository Preaching is the Power for Pastoral Ministry
Image via Wikipedia • How can we have an effective pastorate? • How can our ministries, our preaching, support church health? • How can we be faithful in our ministries? There is a parable for young...
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Journey of a Lifetime: How New Disciples of Jesus Grow
Have you trusted in the resurrected and living Christ?[1] Then God has revealed to you that according to His Word, the Holy Scriptures,[2] your faith is a gift of God,[3] not earned or deserved, and...
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God Can Repair Broken Daddies: A Father’s Day Message
Father’s Day is a day to remember that God made dads. And when they break, and they can and often do, only He can fix them. 2 Samuel 18:24-19.2; Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:1-4 The Bible is very...
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Old Spice, Hai Karaté and the Aroma of God
Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire. Exodus 29.18 For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are...
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Reformed in Order to Remember: A Scripture and Prayer for All Saints Day
I am a Reformed believer who is going to remember All Saints Day. In fact, I think it is good thing for me to do so, especially, on the day after Reformation Day. My theology must become my biography....
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A Christmas Parable for Prodigals
I grew up eating mincemeat pie. Aunt Eva made them every Christmas, and as a child, I loved those pies. They were made of a finely chopped, cooked mixture that included raisins, currants, apples, suet,...
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A Christmas Eve to Remember: A nation stunned by war received a surprise gift...
Before the “war on Christmas,” or the “war on religious liberty” in America, or the hasty dismantling of nativity scenes at military bases and city halls (while scenes of city workers carrying off...
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President Reagan’s Christmas Faith in the White House
“The Child born in Bethlehem…was and is the promised Prince of Peace…” These words were spoken by President Ronald Reagan in his first Christmas address from the White House in 1981. In his first year...
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Lest We Forget: Rudyard Kipling’s Recessional as Prophetic Poetry for our Own...
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Photography by E.O. Hoppé (1912). Creative Commons. Public Domain. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) really knew how to spoil a party. One would have thought the cryptic faith...
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The Simple Things, The Profound Things: A Charge to Pastor and People on...
Image via Wikipedia The first things that are said at the beginning of a new relationship are the most important. We know that in courtship, in relationships with friends, and even in job interviews...
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How a Wounded Bird Flies
http://michaelmilton.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Michael-Milton-How-a-Wounded-Bird-Flies.mp3 2013-2014 © Words and Music by Michael Milton, Bethesda (BMI). A song written and recorded to help...
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