• Scott Petty
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• 1 May 2011

A friend of mine visited my house, an English teacher clearly unhappy with her day. One of her teenage students had rubbished her lesson and the novel they were studying to another teacher. In the staff room there was general consensus that, though my friend is a great teacher, the

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• 1 May 2011

I used to think that interest in the persecuted church was a specialty within a specialty. There are social justice issues, like poverty, homelessness, amnesty, and displaced people groups, and in my head the persecuted church was a subset of these. I probably wasn’t alone in thinking that it’s a

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• 1 May 2011

Lurking in many family-friendly church meetings is a segment that is oft over-looked and under-prepared: the seven or eight minutes when the church focuses on the little people huddled up the front, before they are sent off to Sunday school or kids’ church. At our church we call it the

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• 1 May 2011

One of the great blessings of working in full-time Christian ministry is the flexibility and freedom to design your own week and hours. But this is a mixed blessing—the work ethics of Christian ministers vary wildly between workaholism and laziness. What should a Christian minister’s work ethic look like? Is

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