Solutions

The year 2010 is nearly here and although you may be enjoying Advent/Christmas all the parties and festivities if you are a pastor your mind is somewhat down the road and into the new year.  No doubt you are considering in prayer or in action the themes, missional purposes, and sermon ideas of the new [...]

Today’s mile marker post (#70) is a smorgasbord of quotes from one of my favorite books released by Beacon HIll Press this year.  This post is unashamedly aimed at peaking your interest in buying the book (capitalism at work on a Monday morning), but it is also aimed to provide food for your thinking in [...]

While listening to NPR yesterday on the highway I was intrigued by a story that told about a man who
captured stories and photos from a small town in Iowa.  This man went to Oxford, IA, and took photos of 870 people out of 876 in the whole town.  He also did this book display using [...]

Sometimes as a pastor it’s just a good thing to stop and reconsider what it is you value most in your ministry.  In preparation to preach in Topeka this Sunday I’ve been thinking about what I really value in worship and especially in the preaching moment of worship.  In the preaching moment here are some [...]

There are a myriad of life issues that pastors and chaplains face during the course of weekly ministry that require much prayer and Godly wisdom.  When walking with people as Jesus did a pastor will encounter many issues that perhaps he/she may not be completely knowledgeable about or have confidence speaking on with any measure [...]

It’s Tuesday and nearly the middle of a hot month.  You’re a pastor and you’ve run out of emotional energy, spiritual gumption, personal finances perhaps, and things just seem a bit bleak.  You are generally an upbeat sort of person - hopeful, positive, resting, trusting - that God is God and He will make [...]

As Sunday morning church bulletins go they are a thousand different varieties, styles and purposes.  Our church bulletin is very simple with a basic worship format on the left and pertinent announcements on the right made on someone’s PC.  Other bulletins are huge, like 11×17 and folded twice over for readability and are done very [...]

OK.  Today’s blog will seem a bit (maybe a lot) ’sales pitchy.’  If you take it that way I apologize in advance, BUT really I’d like to say that this post is about our way of saying thanks to many incredible pastors, like you, that continue to support Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City.
So, Beacon [...]

The church I attend is at a crossroads.  I enjoy my church very much but we are simply at a crossroads.  And maybe your church is too?  Maybe your church is like mine?  We are in the land of “in-between.”  We are in the land of shifting from internal maintenance mode to hopefully, yearning to [...]

By the title of this post you can probably guess that I get this question a lot from both pastors and congregants concerning resources that Beacon Hill has on the topic of the emergent church.  While I won’t venture to define my interpretation of emergent in this blog I will say that we do have [...]