We talk often about pastors needing gifting and skill with teaching, mentoring, counseling, managing, etc… the list goes on.  Today’s pastor has heavy demands upon her or his leadership to be essentially a super Christian, caused in part by the distorted expectations followers of Christ put upon...

Jim Henderson has this notion that Christians are being marginalized in America. People like our Jesus. Us? Not so much. There may be good reason for that, I suggested as Jim and I sat on a piano bench at Seattle’s Bethany Community Church discussing these matters during the Off the Map ’09 conference. Agreed,...