Dan Greenfield

Category: Pastors

  • What to Preach

    One should preach his beliefs, not his doubts. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 62.

  • Ministry Notoriety

    Notoriety always comes to the preacher who betrays his Lord or his gospel (60). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 60.

  • Sincerity in Ministry

    (Commenting on 2 Cor 4:2) The temptation was often yielded to then as now, to put the best apples on top of the barrel, the best strawberries on top of the basket. The Judaizers made a plausible plea and show. Paul, in contrast, grounds his confidence on two reasons. One…

  • Humility

    The man wins more men to the ministry who is unconscious of any special halo on his own head. He sees only the face of Jesus his Lord. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, pp. 57-58.

  • Your Point of View

    The sense of the nearness of God in his own life and ministry is the overmastering conviction of Paul…if Paul is able to find joy in the midst of his misfortunes, he has pointed the way for every preacher of Christ. The secret lies in looking at one’s life from…

  • God’s Will

    It is easier to see the hand of God after we have passed through a crisis. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 41.

  • Mountains and Valleys

    The sun often shines on the mountain when it is dark in the valley (39). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 38.

  • Call to Preach

    The temptation is easy to settle the question of being a preacher on the dead-level of business, expediency, and convenience. It is the spiritual view of the eternal values as seen by Paul in this prophetic passage that will win and hold the noblest type of man to the service…

  • Press On

    It is a great mistake for any preacher to reach a final conclusion in his moments of despondency. One can see better in the light than in the dark. The light will come if one press on towards it. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 37.  

  • Quit the Ministry?

    Deep down as Paul had gone, it did not occur to him to quit the ministry. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 28.  

  • A Pastor in Jeopardy

    At such a time [the day-to-day sameness and toil of ministry] one is oversensitive and imagines all kinds of slights and insults. The real difficulties and problems of the ministry are magnified out of all proportion to the facts. In such a case a minister is in jeopardy. He is…

  • Who Trains the Shepherds?

    This is excellent: http://www.baylyblog.com/2010/10/the-academy-the-seminary-the-church-and-terminal-degrees.html#more I especially appreciated this part: The academy has taken over the Reformed church and needs to be pushed back to being a servant, rather than a master. And its service needs to be circumscribed to the end that, once its overreaching has been disciplined, it doesn’t have…

  • Prayer for Ministers

    I’ve just started studying the life and ministry of John Newton (1725-1807), and came across this great hymn he wrote called a “Prayer for Ministers.” It is excellent; I’ve been meditating over it for about a week now. Chief Shepherd of thy chosen sheep, From death and sin set free!…