Josh Brooker

Yesterday was one of those days. If you’re in full-time ministry, you know what I’m talking about. The kind of day where my phone seemed to go off incessantly, alerting me to just one more need, crisis, challenge, or painful situation someone in my congregation under my care was facing. There was the brother who […]

My 5-year-old and I were having a discussion about tar on the way to school one morning (I know, a deeply compelling topic of conversation). He’d seen tar on the cracks of the asphalt down the country road outside of our home, and asked what it was and how it was used. The conversation seemed […]

The loneliest time of the week for me as a pastor is Sunday night and Monday morning. I’m coming down from the adrenaline rush involved with preaching four weekend services, my mind is processing all the conversations and interactions I had or didn’t have with church members, and I’m physically, emotionally, and mentally tapped out. […]

I’m about to make a statement that I genuinely believe everyone deep down knows to be true, even as its obviousness is now being systematically scrubbed from the collective consciousness of those in our decidedly post-modern, post-Christian culture. It’s going to be controversial. It might even make some folks mad. It might get me labeled […]