Mad as Hell: What Concerns Me About the Church
Bill Easum Someone asked me the other day,”What concerns you must about the Church today?” I had to think about my answer. I could have answered her question in so many ways. But I finally responded. “What concerns me most about the Church is why countless thousands of young pastors, with their whole life in front […]
Make Hey While the Son Shines
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die…” Ecc. 3:1 He was one of my best friends. I miss him so much. We used to take walks together every day I was in town. Every morning he would greet me […]
Managerial Aspects of Leadership
By Bill Easum Being the pastor of a church requires many things not taught in seminary. One of those things not taught is the managerial aspects of leadership. Whereas leaders look outward to the future, managers look inward to the moment. In a small church the pastor has to be both manager and leader if […]
Midstorm Equation
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Ministry in the Age of the Unthinkable
Ever since my book, Dancing With Dinosaurs (1993), where I wrote about the “Crack in history” I’ve been warning people that we are living in a time of radical change. But I was wrong. We’re really living in a time of unthinkable change. Who would have ever imagined 9/11 could happen; or who in their […]
Misdirected Calls
I want to write about something this month that no one wants to talk openly about (people talk to me privately, as you will see later). I know some of my readers will want to de-frock me, string me up, and pour hot tar mixed with feathers all over me, but I got to call […]