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June 28, 2016 | jeremy-bouma
Ask These 5 Questions to Bring Clarity to Your Old Testament Sermons
I wish I’d had Christopher Wright’s new book How to Preach Through the Old Testament for All Its Worth when I regularly preached. It would h...
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October 5, 2015 | bill-mounce
Judgment and Snare of the Devil (1 Tim 3:6-7) - Mondays with Mounce 267
I am preparing a talk on leadership, so I have been spending some good time back in the Pastorals. I came across a great example of two geni...
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September 1, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
10 Practical Steps for Living as an Ecclesial Theologian
As we begin another seminary school year and restart our church ministries post-summer, I’d like to recommend a vision of pastoral leadershi...
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August 18, 2015 | ZA Blog
Prepare for Fall - eBook Sale
The store shelves filled with school supplies and dorm wares are a reminder that summer is coming to an end. For professors and pastors thi...
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August 13, 2015 | ZA Blog
A Sudden Scholar - An Excerpt from I (Still) Believe
Can serious academic study of the Bible become threatening to one’s faith? I (Still) Believe answers this question with a resounding "Far fr...
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July 23, 2015 | ZA Blog
A Taxonomy of the Term - An Excerpt from The Pastor Theologian
In chapter 6 of their recent release The Pastor Theologian, Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson take the opportunity to explain the three catego...
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July 21, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Which Type of Pastor Theologian Are You: Local, Popular, or Ecclesial?
In their new book Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson have identified one of the more important crises of our day: the divorce of the theologian...
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July 17, 2015 | ZA Blog
Stewarding Power Well – An Excerpt from The Emotionally Healthy Leader
As Peter Scazzero argues in his recent book The Emotionally Healthy Leader, God has given everyone power and leadership in some area, and he...
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July 14, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Nonexistent Pastor Theologians Have Led to Theological-Ecclesial Anemia
The American church is suffering. Pastors are suffering, because they don’t know who they are and what they are supposed to be doing; church...
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July 7, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Do You Have the Only Quality that Matters for Healthy Leadership?
In recent months evangelicalism has witnessed a surprising number of resignations by “successful” pastors who appeared to be spiritual He-M...
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June 30, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Do You Reflect These 4 Characteristics of an Emotionally Unhealthy Leader?
When you think of an unhealthy leader, who do you picture? What kinds of adjectives would you use to describe them? Angry, controlling, aggr...
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June 26, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Professors, Reimagine the Pastorate; Pastors, Don't Bury Your Gift — An Excerpt from "The Pastor Theologian"
“The renewal of the church depends on a renewal of theology,” which “depends on the resurrection of the ancient vision of the pastor as ecc...
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June 25, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Leader, Face Your Shadow for the Sake of Your Ministry — An Excerpt from "The Emotionally Healthy Leader"
Every leader has one, yet few leaders want to explore it, deal with it, confront it. While leaders read countless books and attend conferen...
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June 23, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
Peter Scazzero’s Journey Toward Emotionally Healthy Leadership
Peter Scazzero’s got a story church leaders need to hear, because he describes the leadership journey that seems to mark many people in mini...
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June 19, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
The Almost Extinct and Very Rare Pastoral Role: Pastor Theologian — An Excerpt from "The Pastor Theologian"
What does it mean to play the role of a pastor? I wrestled with this question almost daily when I was in vocational pastoral ministry, prob...
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June 17, 2015 | jeremy-bouma
What Does It Mean to Be a Pastor-Theologian?
[embed width="680" height="383"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmY8A0HswM[/embed] (Can't see the video? Watch it here) There probably isn't...
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