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...

Paul had claimed he learned to be content in every situation. As Acts closes Paul shows us that the freedom of a Christ Follower isn’t measured by the absence of chains or prisons, but by one’s capacity to love God and humanity in the face of all resistance. By reasonable human standards Paul wasn’t...