I learned long ago that even though I take vacations, the enemy of my soul does not! Read the rest of this entry…

In the last several months I have been to an unusually large number of funerals, and therefore, to the burials which either preceded or followed them. If you would allow me, I would like to take you with me for a moment to show you what I’ve seen in the cemeteries. Our visit will not be long, but if you will see what I have seen, I believe it will be helpful. Read the rest of this entry…

I pass on to you a poem by Amy Carmichael that I came across in some of my reading. She says well that which many of us do not what to accept, but which is true nonetheless… Read the rest of this entry…

Many a young Christian looks with admiration at his or her spiritual leaders and wistfully desires to be in their position. They do not know what it is they desire. If they did realize what spiritual leadership would cost them, their wistfulness might change to wariness. Read the rest of this entry…

Sometimes well-known passages of Scripture lose their surprise on us.  Read this teaching of Jesus as if you’ve never seen it before and notice whether or not there is a surprise at the end. Read the rest of this entry…

It is early Spring, as I write this, and just the other day my wife and I gathered up the branches that had fallen to the ground over the winter. We built a fire in our outdoor fire pit, and sat and talked and prayed as the day turned to night. It was a good time, and we look forward to many more like that. But as we talked with each other we were also giving our attention to  Read the rest of this entry…

An inexperienced leader, or one aspiring to be a leader, may think that if God has given a person the gift of leadership that that person would somehow find the task of leading to be easy. Read the rest of this entry…

When I was a young college student, flushed with the new-found joy of walking with the Lord and almost overcome by the sense of God’s presence in my life, I frowned upon others who Read the rest of this entry…

When thinking of personal characteristics which enhance, or even enable, one to be a spiritual leader of others, one attribute comes to mind that is positively scary. It is  Read the rest of this entry…

If you have been reading this blog recently you have noticed that over the last few weeks I have been quoting J. Oswald Sanders. I have found his thoughts on spiritual leadership extremely challenging and helpful. The book I have been quoting from is titled Spiritual Leadership and can be found here.

There are many books written about leadership. There are many books written from a Christian perspective on spiritual leadership. By no means have I read them all, but of the ones I have read I can say without reservation that Sanders’ Spiritual Leadership outshines them all. His book is head and shoulders above any other book I’ve read on the subject. I heartily recommend it to you!