Light and Heat: A Balance for Ministry
I have had the privilege over the past decade to serve in ministerial and academic roles. Prior to becoming a college instructor, I was a full-time youth and family pastor. In 2014, I was hired at Welch College to lead their program in Youth and Family Ministry. Shortly thereafter, I became the Campus Pastor at Welch and began serving my local congregation in a part-time position as their youth and family pastor. To be on both sides...
A Challenge from a Young Pastor to Young Ministry Students
To a young ministry student, You are entering into an exciting time in your ministry journey. A few years ago, maybe in a meeting with your pastor or during a youth event, you sensed a call from God to ministry. Or maybe it was more recent, and you have been slowly trying to discern whether you “desire such an office.” Nevertheless, you are here now and training to be a pastor in a local congregation. In my own experience, this period...
HSF Conversations: “Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep” with Jeff Manning
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we ask Dr. Jeff Manning to tell us how he goes about preparing his sermons. This episode is the first installment of a series of posts where we will ask pastors to tell us about their sermon prep. In this conversation, we discuss text selection, outlines, commentaries, and other key components in sermon...
Recommended Books (Autumn 2022)
Every generation undoubtedly feels a sense of dislocation, but the world seems to be growing increasingly strange. The old liberal order fashioned in the nineteenth century and bludgeoned horribly during the twentieth appears to be tottering in the early twenty-first—wars in Europe, spasmodic breakdown of social order in major cities in the West and East, COVID-19 and the ensuing social chaos and governmental overreach, and economic...
Recommended Books (Summer 2022)
As summer comes to a close and last-minute vacations are squeezed in before the school year begins, we would like to take time to recommend some of our favorite reads from recent months. Below, you will find offerings from a wide range of disciplines and topics. These suggestions reflect our various interests and concerns that we think you might share with us. Please leave us your favorite reads in the comment section....
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