In Season 2, episode 2, I share a wonderful conversation with my friend Adam Utecht. Adam is the Senior Pastor of Community Church Fond du Lac in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Our discussion covers pastoral self-awareness, staff transitions, church planting, and much more. Enjoy the conversation, and please leave a rating or review for the podcast!

The Minister's Ordinary Conversation is back. Season 2 opens with a conversation I had with my friend Dale Harris. Dale is the Senior Pastor of Highland Community Church in Cokato, Minnesota. Our discussion covers strategies for deep discipleship, dealing with disappointment in ministry, handling abusive leaders, and much more. Enjoy the conversation, and please leave a rating for the podcast!

A pastor-theologian is a biblically-educated, theologically-grounded intellectual who makes disciples by teaching the local church and engaging the public square. Listen to the last episode of this season where I unpack the definition that will shape our understanding of this critical office.

Today we examine Paul's prayer for spiritual maturity in Philippians 1:9-11:

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.