It's Like Herding Cats

So, You Want To Be A Pastor...   One day as Jesus was walking along the shore beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers--Simon, also...

Here below find the words of John Baillie as written in his "A Diary of Private Prayer." The language may be archaic at tim...

          Fred Craddock often told the wonderful story about that remarkable evening during his childhood when his father called hi...

“We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are qu...

I'm a man who believes in grace and mercy - and who draws strength from those deep wells more often than most realize. As a pastor of...

It's funny how an offhand comment or question can sometimes drive me into periods of really deep thought and reflection. That's r...

It's gotten to be a joke between my bride and me - my use of the phrase "I'm just saying..." as I try to make a cas...

We miss it almost every year. We forget that the people we read about in the accounts of the events that make up Easter weekend even had...

I was there in my office at New Hope on a rare day off from school and spending some time getting reacquainted with the place. For years ...

I took this picture a few years ago. It was at this desk, where a man built a career. He rose from salesman, to territory manager,...

Advent. It's a season that can get you to examine things you've been covering over and pretending not to notice. I've be...

The weeks have flown by at Mary Esther Elementary. I've learned an awful lot about teaching that textbooks will never deliver. ...

Sunday's message as we walked through Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth, centered on just what God would have us unders...

Had a kind of tough day yesterday. Since I'm a pastor, you should interpret that to mean that Church didn't go well. Wasn't fo...

In our family, we do our level best not to lie. There may be times when what we say turns out not to be true, but that's an error, not ...

One of the things Bunny and I love to do on vacation is to visit old churches and old cemeteries. The Huguenot Cemetery in St Augustine is a...

Had some things happen at New Hope yesterday that I know made God smile. Theologians tend to get a wee bit anxious when you start assignin...

Hi there, David Wilson here, just one of thousands of pastors across America and around the world. I've come to you today to offer yo...

Last night I started to notice that my Google Mail's "Spam" box was filling at a pretty rapid rate. One of the reasons I chos...

From It's Like Herding Cats - A pastor's life For me, it's the call. It's always about being faithful to the call. I...