Profiles in Leadership

You are a leader. You might not think of yourself that way, but you are. If you are a parent, you exercise leadership in the home. At your workplace you influence your coworkers. And at church, you exert influence on fellow believers. Even if you are younger, you have influence on your peers, and maybe even those much older than you. We must be good … Continue reading Profiles in Leadership

The Pastor and Personal Holiness

“My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness.” So wrote Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843), an influential Scottish pastor of his time. If you were to survey pastors today and ask them this simple question: “what do you think the greatest need of your congregation is?” I suspect you would get a whole host of different answers, and few would have anything to do with personal holiness. … Continue reading The Pastor and Personal Holiness