Our second child was born on Monday. So, this week has been that surreal mixture of sublime exhiliration, tag-team parenting, and sleep deprivation. But the family leave has provided some quieter mome
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What makes a ministry beautiful? A river runs through it.
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Another Reformation Day has come and gone. Each year the day gives us occasion to reflect on the significance of the upheavals of the Sixteenth Century—upheavals that changed the religious, social, and cultural landscape of the West, especially the western church. What was at stake? What was it...
Rev. Scott Schaller September 14, 2011
I want to thank you for your post. I like reading about stories of ministry like Robinson’s Gilead, or Lischer’s Open Secrets or even Karon’s At home in Mitford. but I find myself caught between the lovely world of Gilead or Mitford’s fictional ministry and the reality of they smell like sheep ministry. I find ministry can be off putting or hurtful. So I always find that ministry needs to be seen from the view of God called me to be pastor. On some days that’s all you got. I will take your view and look at the “beautiful” in ministry. Thanks for your thoughts