Table of contents
A Voice in The Wilderness
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- 1 The Power of Mere Words
- 2 Competing with the Communication Kings
- 3 Voice of Authority or Fellow Struggler?
- 4 When You’re Not Taken Seriously
- 5 Assuming They Are Christians
- 6 All Things to All People
- 7 Handling the Hard Side of the Gospel
- 8 When You’re in Pain
- 9 How an Audience Becomes a Congregation
- 10 Having Something to Say
- 11 Strength for the Weekly Grind
- 12 Preaching to the Disinclined
The Pressure Is On
Sometimes you may feel like you are facing a football defensive line: a half-ton of mass and muscle whose sole objective is to pound you into the turf. The demands of the ministry can make it feel like that, especially when you’re faced by pressures like:
- How can I compete with the communication “masters” my parishioners listen to on the radio and television every week?
- How can I preach about love when my own marriage is strained?
- How do I really know if I’m making a difference?
Questions like these can unnerve us. They can destroy us. Or, like the pressure of weights against muscle, they can make our preaching strong. These issues—and more—are addressed in A Voice in the Wilderness, practical guidance for transforming ministry’s pressures into opportunities to excel, written by three of the most respected preachers in America today.
