by Aaron McCollough | Feb 16, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
I made the statement in a sermon I preached recently that most everybody is facing a situation in life that is causing them to struggle to find a way forward. Sometimes the only way to discover the way forward is by examining the past. When we examine our past, we...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 2, 2017 | Leadership Nuggets: Archives
One of the biggest challenges facing leaders is learning to keep a proper perspective regarding the ministry and the people they lead. Often, as the old adage goes, leaders come to a point where they, “no longer see the forest for the trees.” They lose perspective. ...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 2, 2017 | An Encouraging Word to Pastors: Archives
In his book, Mastering Life Before It’s Too Late, Robert J. Morgan tells a story about his friend, George Westover, who was stationed on the USS Tennessee, as it was anchored in Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. According to Morgan, the Friday night before the Sunday...
by Aaron McCollough | Feb 2, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
Not long ago I took a book off the shelf in my office that I had read several years earlier. It is entitled, “The Last Lecture.” It was written by Randy Pausch. Randy was a terminally ill professor who was literally given the opportunity to give one final lecture to...
by Aaron McCollough | Jan 19, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives
His name is Ryan. He is twenty-five years old. He was the skydive instructor and tandem parachutist who instructed and jumped with my wife Marianne, this Memorial Day Weekend, when she jumped out of a perfectly good airplane at 14, 650 feet. Yes. You read that...
