Episode 116: Power, Vulnerability, Rest, with Tod Bolsinger, Executive Director of the Church Leadership Institute
The summer of 1993 was a great summer! North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Ocean. Sunshine. Golf. Best Summer Ever! There were about 60 of us college students (and about 20 staff) on Summer Project with Campus Crusade for Christ. And it was one of the best summers of my life! We worked jobs on…
What do you do when the world you’re living in is turned upside down? As a pastor, I’ve thought a lot about this over the years. The world we live in is not the world we were prepared for. The kind of ministry we tend to do is designed for a world that no longer…
You can just call me Mr. Arrogant. Or Captain Cocky. Ooh, or how about Pastor Proud! Yep, there’s a lot of arrogance in me. “But, wait, Markus. Didn’t you tell us in your last blog post that you struggled with feeling like you weren’t enough?” I did. And here’s the crazy part. Arrogance is really…
Am I enough? Nope. At least that’s how I often feel. And I have lived with this feeling of being “not enough” for most of my life. As a kid, I always felt like I was on the outside looking in. I felt like I wasn’t cool enough, or athletic enough, or smart enough, or…