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By John Benton

Clear Your Desk!

When a pastor is forced out We tend to think of America as the place of the “hire and fire” culture – sadly we have the same kind of culture in some UK churches. A 2008 US study reckoned that around 23% of pastors have either had their contracts terminated or been forced to resign. …

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A Glorious Thought for a Dismal New Year

Perhaps my favorite of John Bunyan’s works is his little volume titled The Jerusalem Sinner Saved. It is really an exposition of Luke 24:47, Luke’s expression of the Great Commission, in which the Lord Jesus tells his disciples to preach the gospel “beginning at Jerusalem.” The people of the city and its leaders had repeatedly rejected, scorned, …

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Marathon Men

How are pastors faring in ministry? Three years ago, through my work with the Pastors’ Academy, I was in touch in an active way with 63 pastors. This autumn I thought it was time to conduct a simple audit of how those same men are getting on. Here are the broad statistics: Of those pastors, …

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The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs: Encouragement for Small Churches

We tend to only hear about larger churches and pastors of larger churches. But we should not despise small churches. Actually they can be beautiful. A beautiful church There are two dominant pictures of the church in the NT. These are the picture of a church as a family, and a local church as the …

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