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Call Day Again: How to Prepare for and Receive a Candidate
Calling a candidate is a risky endeavor. Doing so exhibits trust that God will work for you....

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Apr 87 min read
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Call Day 2025: Cause for Celebration and Prayer
Call Day is less than a month away. “Call Day” is actually three days. This year it begins in Ft. Wayne on Monday, April 28 and ends on...

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Apr 83 min read
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Preaching as Leading
Our sermons have sometimes been maligned as being simply theological lectures that reinforce dead orthodoxy or worse: ritualistic...

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Mar 265 min read
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Pastoral Leadership: An Army Marches On Its Stomach
Leadership talk necessarily invokes something like the scene with Caesar that I quoted in the previous article where Caesar grabs a...

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Feb 149 min read
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Professionalism's Dangers and Amateurs' Love
Our world is driven by consumerism. At the extreme end, there are hoarders. This is a serious mental problem that wastes resources,...

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Feb 55 min read
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The Countenance of the Lord on the Face of the Pastor: Leading Volunteers
Caesar’s Gaze Throughout his commentary on the war in Gaul, Caesar describes how his soldiers respond to his presence and attention. In...

Rev. Dr. David Petersen
Dec 19, 20247 min read
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