The purpose of The Pastor’s Perspective is to offer encouraging help to friends and fellow servants in the ministry, and I pray you have been strengthened through time spent here this past year. Below is a list of the most read posts from 2010 with a short description of each post. (more…)

Twenty-five years ago this July, I stood in front of fewer than twenty people and preached my first Sunday night sermon as pastor of Lancaster Baptist Church. My title was “Striving Together,” and the text was Philippians 1:27: “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” (emphasis added).

As a young pastor, I wanted a church that would strive together to reach our community for Christ. I wanted to see people saved, added to the church, and growing as spiritual Christians who would love and work alongside one another. (more…)