Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.27.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 6, “The Foremost of the Demons.""It is not true, as some men think, that all clergymen are lazy, but it is true that they like other men are tempted, and alas, too many of them succumb."’Not infrequently a man will fuss and bustle over m…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.26.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 5,"Starts Good and Bad.""A bad start in a pastorate is disastrous. The blunders of the first few weeks may throw a shadow over many years.""When the minister goes into his new parish he ought to give himself at once to his supreme task, f…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.25.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 4, “Which Door?""It is well for a man not to be too heavily weighted with theories at the beginning of his career.""A man ought to preach not where he wants to preach but where he can preach.""But suppose a field is hard, sha…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.24.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 3, “The Man of Macedonia.""A student on emerging from the Seminary sometimes experiences a chilling surprise. The world does not seem glad that another laborer is now ready to enter the vineyard.""What shall the young man do? He cannot d…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.23.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 2, “A Mirror for Ministers.""Probably no other man in the town is subjected to such a constant stream of criticism as the minister, and possibly no other man profits so little by criticism as he.""Those who make the fiercest onslaughts o…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.22.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 1, “Wherefore All This.""Ministers as a body are I think the best men living on the earth.""But ministers to be as good as other classes of men must be better than they. No other set of men make such assumptions or bind themselves to suc…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.21.10 in Pastors, Preaching
In 1898 Charles Edward Jefferson became the pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York. He stayed as pastor for 33 years of fruitful growth and expanding ministry. He had the “longest run on Broadway” of any of the church’s pastors. During his time thousands of people packed the sanctuary every Sunday to hear him prea…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.23.09 in Devotional, Pastors
Fred Sanders reminds us that yesterday was the anniversary of the day in 1750 when Jonathan Edwards was voted out as pastor of the church in Northampton, Massachusetts.The vote was 230 to dismiss him, 23 to keep him as pastor.That’s 10-1 against him.That’s after being the pastor at Northampton for 23 years.I should add one point….
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.17.09 in Pastors
A friend sent me this over the weekend and I thought I would pass it along. It’s not the whole story about being a pastor, but it’s definitely part of the story. Here’s another reason to pray for your pastor:This soul-weariness shines through a few lines of sarcasm one minister wrote in his journal: “If I wanted to drive a m…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.11.09 in Pastors, Travel
I’m writing this note–hurriedly–from the Cincinnati airport. So far I have completed two legs of a five-leg journey that started at 4 AM in Tupelo and will end in Danforth, Maine this evening. By then I’ll be at Living Waters Bible Conference, a lovely spot on the eastern edge of Maine, just across the lake from New Brunswic…
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