Practical Pastoring: Ordination continued, Book Five

You may have heard that man proposes and God disposes. The best laid plans do not always work out the way we have intended. Karrie often tells me that things are not going to work out how I think they will. I am learning to allow more and more room for the “God factor”.

As I was beginning my pastoral journey and before I was ordained, Pastor Dan and his wife and children were in the midst of turmoil. Phillip Yancey wrote about “Disappointment with God” and I have shared from the pulpit that in my arrogance I was “disappointed with God”.

Part of the ordination ceremony encouraged me to be long...