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I've been a pastor for 34 years. Now I'd like to write about it.
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Thank God It's Sunday Afternoon (opens the original)
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Pastors live on a strange weekly clock. Friday isn’t really Friday. Saturday night dinner invitations come with an internal calculation: How late can I stay out when I have to preach tomorrow?I made this Reel because pastors need places where they can talk about the strange rhythms of this vocation with someone who understands them.This is part of what I'm trying to create through Cultivate—a place where pastors don't have to carry the peculiar weight of ministry alone.Cultivate Pastors<a class=
Saying a Holy Yes (opens the original)
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Thirty years ago today, on August 5, 1996, my wife and I arrived in San Francisco with three small children, a moving truck, and one of the most outlandish ideas imaginable.We were going to plant a church.Our kids were six, four, and two years old. We didn’t know a soul. Not one family. Not one built-in network. Not one grandparent nearby. No cousins. No lifelong friends. Just the conviction that God was somehow calling us to a city we barely knew.When people plant churches, they usually know so
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