by Stephen Suffron | Jan 5, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
January is a time when people naturally reorder their priorities and try to start fresh in a better routine for the new year. We as pastors are no different. The Christmas season is over, and a more regular schedule gives us time to create a plan for following the...
by Stephen Suffron | Dec 22, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
If you watch Christmas TV-movies like my wife and I do, you have a picture of small-town life at Christmas. You might imagine the bustling town square lit up with Christmas lights as the various businesses make their Christmas profits, a full calendar of community...
by Stephen Suffron | Dec 8, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
For whatever reason, I’ve never really cared about being rich. I certainly like to have enough to pay the bills, and more is better than less, but money hasn’t ever been a big motivator for me. I think a lot of pastors are like that (or God brought us to...
by Stephen Suffron | Nov 24, 2016 | Ministry
Christmas has “Happy Holidays” (though that is becoming more and more passe), and Thanksgiving has “Turkey Day” and “pre-Black Friday.” The holiday dedicated to pausing and acknowledging the blessings of God is, for many people, a...
by Stephen Suffron | Nov 10, 2016 | Ministry, Op-Ed
Donald Trump will the the next President of the United States. Not many people expected this. Like most people, I spent most of the last year bracing for at least four years of President Hillary Clinton, and Tuesday just seemed like an exercise in inevitability....
