On the Wall with Sword and Trowel: The Challenges and Conflicts of Ministry

Future pastors and servant-leaders are taught the much-needed “tools of the trade”--the principles of hermeneutics how to exegete a passage put a sermon together conduct a wedding manage a funeral oversee administrative meetings and much more. On the Wall with Sword and Trowel is a reminder that no amount of professional training educational instruction and/or personal counsel could adequately ready an individual for the crucible of ministry--the confusion pressures heartbreak disappointments discouragements and more. There is plenty more to learn about genuine faith dealing with doubts and fears the destructive nature of sin the healing/transforming power of grace the overwhelming demands of ministry the necessity for authenticity the sanctity of marriage and family the joy of serving and the weight of duty and responsibility--all issues every pastor/servant will face and must face.