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Book Review: The Imperfect Pastor
Eswine, Zack. The Imperfect Pastor. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. 274 pages. Reviewed by Brett McNeill (Pastor at Reformation OPC, Olympia, WA). It feels like the call to do something “great” for God is everywhere around us. I recently heard a critique of a sermon...
Book Review: God’s Purposes in Our Pain — 10 Ways God Uses Suffering for Our Good
Berding, Kenneth and Keith Krell. God’s Purposes in Our Pain. 10 Ways God Uses Suffering for OurGood. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2026. What is the telos of suffering, its end or goal—that is, God’s forward–looking purposes for allowingsuffering in your life or someone’s...
Book Review: Zeal without Burnout – Seven Keys to a Lifelong Ministry of Sustainable Sacrifice
Zeal without Burnout - Seven Keys to a Lifelong Ministry of Sustainable Sacrifice - Book Review Author: Christopher Ash, The Good Book Co. (2016) Reviewed by Ronald E. Pearce It is urgent that the subject of burnout in pastoral ministry be addressed. Ash writes, Some...
Caring Through Compensation by John Fikkert
For many OP congregations, December and January are the season for annual congregational meetings and approving yearly budgets. If your church budget is like most, the biggest line item is probably pastoral compensation. Churches have an opportunity not only to...
Good Expectations for Your Pastor’s Sabbatical
Good Expectations for Your Pastor’s Sabbatical Brett McNeill Originally Published in New Horizons June 2024 It’s encouraging over the past few years in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to see more and more congregations grant sabbaticals to their pastors. The...
Webinar: D.A. Carson on the Ordinary Pastor
https://vimeo.com/907547566 What does it mean to be an “ordinary pastor?” While our day has its share of well-known and gifted ministers, many more serve as faithful ministers who are not widely known as exceptional preachers or leaders. Today’s webinar is an...
Guidelines on Severance Pay for Ministers
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Committee On Ministerial Care (January 2023) Guidelines on Severance Pay for Ministers The time when a minister’s service at a church comes to an end leads to a critical transition for everyone involved. Transitions in a church’s life...
Should Ministers Opt Out of Social Security?
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Committee on Ministerial Care “Should Ministers Opt Out of Social Security?” Ministers of the gospel and other clergy and religious workers are granted a unique opportunity to claim an exemption from self-employment taxes, and thus to...
The Obadiah Fund “Bread for Ministers” by John A. Hartley
This article originally appeared in the July 2023 issue of New Horizons By John A. Hartley Where did Obadiah find all that bread? It is a fair question but certainly not the point of Scripture’s brief yet dense testimony to one man’s faith, love, and courage: “Now...
Investment Management vs. Financial Planning (from our partners at Creative Planning)
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