
Encouragement from John 4 for small-town pastors
Over at the Small Town Summits website, I have a new article that gleans encouragement for small-town pastors from the story of Jesus and the royal official.
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Over at the Small Town Summits website, I have a new article that gleans encouragement for small-town pastors from the story of Jesus and the royal official.
Wow, it’s amazing how we sometimes need to hear the same thing over and over again. I am a big fan of Paul Tripp – he’s helped Emma and me in our marriage and also in our parenting.
The New Testament uses family terms to describe the church.

I was excited to see my soon-to-be-released book in the recent InterVarsity Press new titles catalog!
In our current sermon series, ‘Seven Promises for Weary Saints,’ we’re looking at challenges many of us face.
Here’s an essay I wrote for The Gospel Coalition on the value of small-town/rural ministry and the importance of developing a theological vision for it. I’ve been formed deeply by ten years of pastoring Pepperell Christian Fellowship.
I’m a big fan of Gordon-Conwell professor and former Senior Pastor of Park Street Church, Gordon Hugenberger (I took every class I could from him in seminary, and was his teaching assistant). Here’s a classic Hugenberger talk, in which he brings fresh biblical insight to the discussion of the imputed righteousness of Christ.
The upcoming Life on Mission Conference in Weston and Sudbury on March 16-17, 2018 looks valuable. It’s organized by my friend Brandon Levering. This year the theme is “The Gospel & Sexuality: Faithful and Compassionate Witness,” and the speakers are Christopher Yuan and Rachel Gilson.
I wish every single person I know could take a few minutes to read through the article/transcript I’m going to link to below, and then watch the 18-minute video at the bottom of the article.
Here’s a really helpful article from Trevin Wax of the The Gospel Coalition, about the spiritual practices that are common to children who wind up flourishing spiritually as Christian adults. It’s based on a new LifeWay research study. How important and valuable can you get?!