by Stephen Suffron | Mar 16, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
“I remember when this whole place was full every Sunday. We even had people in the balcony.” The “good old days” can be an enemy to the pastor of a small church. People can often define success as getting things closer to what they used to be,...
by Stephen Suffron | Mar 2, 2017 | Ministry, Missions, Theology
Two Sundays ago, I baptized my son Joseph. Although we knew it was a decision he had been wrestling with for some time, the timing was somewhat of a surprise. On the first Sunday in February, I preached a sermon that wasn’t explicitly evangelistic, so, as I do...
by Stephen Suffron | Feb 16, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
After posting your resume various places and daily asking God to lead you to the right place of ministry, you receive a call. It’s from Bob, head of the search committee at First Baptist No-Place-You’ve-Ever-Heard-Of. In your conversation, you learn that...
by Stephen Suffron | Feb 2, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
When we were first looking into moving into a small town to pastor a small church, one of the things that made us nervous was the prospect of living in a church-owned parsonage. We had heard some horror stories over the years about pastors living in church housing...
by Stephen Suffron | Jan 19, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
There are lots of different motivations you can have for talking to people about Christ, and all of them are good. We are concerned with the eternal destiny of the unbeliever. When I really think about the prospect of anyone, let alone someone I know and care about,...
