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Help for the New Pastor: Practical Advice for Your First Year of Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Your first year of ministry brings brand-new challenges—often with inadequate preparation and little time to adjust. How do you moderate meetings, manage a church budget, and counsel struggling congregants, all while preparing sermons every week? The new pastor’s time is also inundated with something else—advice! Too much of it! Where do you begin? What you need during your make-or-break first...

learn to use letters, podcasts, blog posts, and emails, but there is no substitute for being physically present with your people. A minister is a shepherd, but he is a specific kind of shepherd: a teaching shepherd. God gathers, saves, sanctifies, and sustains his flock by his Word. Whether in pulpits, homes, hospitals, or jails, you will always be teaching. The literal shepherding of sheep is rewarding but arduous work. So, too, is shepherding God’s church. I
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