Author: Steve

  • June 16, 2023
    MEETING WITH YOUR RESPECTIVE LEADERSHIP Explain to your leadership how you have arrived at this area of interest. (In mycase,…
  • June 14, 2023
    CONFESSING SINS OF DISGUSTING NEIGHBORS MY NEIGHBOR IN THE BODY OF CHRIST What is my responsibility for my neighbor’s sins…
  • June 7, 2023
    Ten top Reasons to Refuse to Hear God's Call In the Reformed faith, we believe that all people have a…
  • June 2, 2023
    An Enemy Within the Church Almost every pastor has the experience of having some person or persons within the membership…
  • May 31, 2023
    An exercise in exploring White Privilege When Whites hear the term White Privilege, they usually have one of two reactions.…
  • May 31, 2023
    Cost of Listening Most churches would agree that they value a pastor who can listen with sensitivity to people who…
  • May 19, 2023
    JUDICATORIES WHO CARE FOR CLERGY  PREVENT THEOLOGICAL BURNOUT Most of the pastors in your judicatory have had at least three…
  • May 17, 2023
    MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST–part two The parable continues Abigail enthralled his adult class with her description of her…
  • May 12, 2023
    PART ONE MARRIED TO THE BODY OF CHRIST Stephen McCutchan Part one David Benedict, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran church,…
  • May 10, 2023
    IS FORCE THE ANSWER TO THREAT? (This is an excerpt from “Hospitality for Alien Strangers,” to be published in the…