Follow your heart. Today we associate the heart with passion, emotion, and love. For Jeremiah’s audience, the heart was in charge of the mind and the will. In both understandings, the...

Trust in the Lord. This charge is often issued from one well-meaning person to another without much thought as to what trust really looks like. We find it easy to trust...

Saying yes to God’s calling on our lives requires saying no to many other things. When I sensed my call to vocational ministry, one of the first things I did was...

Jewish boys in the first century studied the Torah in synagogue schools. Around the age of 12 or 13, some of the more gifted students would continue studying with a local...

For years, I sang the first line of the hymn about amazing grace without thinking much about the second line, “a wretch like me.” This was until I heard a pastor...

In the late seventies, as a new follower of Jesus, I learned the camp song “Pass It On.” I am so grateful that the women and men who mentored me as...

In my coaching of pastors, I primarily focus on two areas. First, I tend to a leader’s walk with God. Are they abiding in Christ? (see John 15:4). Second, I concentrate...

In over forty years of ministry, I have preached or heard others preach on the call of Isaiah from Isaiah 6:1-8 many times. A holy vision of a majestic God and...

My call to ministry came while sitting in a physics class at my local community college in Orlando, Florida. Not having been raised in the church and having recently given my...

How quickly things can change! In this passage we go from “All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth,” to they “led...