Written with sensitivity and practical clarity, After Church Hurt equips and comforts. It helped me with my own hurts, something that I have kept hidden, but am now better healing from. I am also more deeply resolved to care for Christ’s sheep.

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Romance Is Worth the Risk / Why We Don’t Trust Pastors. / The Staggering Beauty and Burden of Church Life. / Artificial Preaching: The Temptation of AI

This was the closing prayer poem from my sermon We Share Our Own Selves: 3 Marks of Authentic Ministry. First Chinese Baptist Church, Walnut, California.

Authentic ministry is marked by honest work, upright conduct, and fatherly affection.

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Get them to Jesus / Sharing the Gospel Effectively / ABCs Gospel Invitation/Response / Deconstruction

4 Axioms for Leaders: Riffs on Spurgeon's Spiritual Leadership / Artificial Preaching: The Temptation of AI / Why We Don't Trust Pastors / The Loudest Voice in Motherhood / Develop a Taste for God’s Word

In The Right Faith, Gordon J. Keddie offers a warm, pastoral exposition of 1 and 2 Thessalonians written especially for Christians living in challenging times. Providentially, this book arrived just as our church was beginning a preaching series through these letters!

George Müller: A Life of Prayer and Compassion by Faith Coxe Bailey presents the story of George Müller in a simple, fast-paced narrative that traces his transformation from a rebellious youth to a man wholly devoted to Christ.