{"id":2809,"date":"2013-10-20T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:41","slug":"some-helps-for-the-discouraged-overwhelmed-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/some-helps-for-the-discouraged-overwhelmed-pastor","title":{"rendered":"Some Helps for the Discouraged, Overwhelmed Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last three months of my hiatus from pulpit ministry I have found several resources that have been a great encouragement to me. But more than encouraging, <strong><em>edifying<\/em><\/strong>, even to the point of laying a new foundation for a revived heart for future ministry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a pastor who struggles with the success of others while your own ministry seems to flounder:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/the-pastors-justification-tpb\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pastor&#8217;s Justification: Applying the Work of Christ in Your Life and Ministry<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Jared C. Wilson (Crossway 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a pastor whose personal spiritual zeal, passion, and communion with God has waned:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagebooks.org\/encouragement-for-todays-pastors-help-from-the-puritans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Encouragement for Today&#8217;s Pastor: Help From the Puritans<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoel R. Beeke and Terry D. Slachter (Reformation Heritage Books 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a pastor who has tried and is tired of &#8220;fad ministry&#8221; with little substance:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagebooks.org\/the-genius-of-puritanism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Genius of Puritanism<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPeter Lewis (Reprint: Soli Deo Gloria Publications 1977)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a pastor who is facing an &#8220;identity crisis&#8221; of sorts (what is the pastor&#8217;s chief role when pressured to be so many things to so many constituencies):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagebooks.org\/a-labor-of-love-puritan-pastoral-priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Labor of Love: Puritan Pastoral Priorities<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJ. Stephen Yuille (Reformation Heritage Books 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last three months of my hiatus from pulpit ministry I have found several resources that have been a great encouragement to me. But more than encouraging, edifying, even to the point of laying a new foundation for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/some-helps-for-the-discouraged-overwhelmed-pastor\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}