Posts by David Hughes
Transforming Gift Creates Endowment Fund for Scholarships
When Anjuli Seth Nayak arrived for the first retreat of her Transforming Community, she was clearly a force to be reckoned with! Anjuli was not our typical retreatant. She…
Read MoreHow do we build a bridge to the next generation of spiritual leaders?
Consider these statistics from Barna Group’s 2017 State of Pastors Project: The average age of Protestant senior pastors is 54, a decade older than 25 years ago, when the average…
Read MoreFrom Decision-Making to Discernment: One Leader’s Experience
“If we are not pursuing the will of God together in fairly intentional ways, what are we doing? Our own will? What seems best according to our own thinking and…
Read MoreA different kind of calendar
“When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s.…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Calendar
“When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s.…
Read MoreTransformation Before My Eyes
“See, I am doing a new deed, even now it comes to light; can you not see it?” (Isaiah 43:19, The Jerusalem Bible) As a former long-term pastor of a congregation,…
Read MoreMinistry update and match gift opportunity
Out of 20 pastors who enter ministry, how many will stay in ministry until they retire? As a former pastor I would have guessed possibly 15, but probably 10. I was…
Read MoreIs this all there is?
IS THIS ALL THERE IS? This question unsettles us when it bubbles up inside us, especially when we ask it at church! In an online article written for Christianity Today…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Calendar
“When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s.…
Read MoreBeginning Again… With Advent
When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s.…
Read MoreSpiritual Transformation: Hype or Hope?
Why are you so downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm…
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