Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Developing other leaders and mentoring them is a core component of pastoring. Matt Perman (Desiring God | What’s Best Next) makes some excellent observations on the difference between “what I’m good at” and “what my strengths are” and the difference between skills and talents:
1. “What I’m Good At” vs. “What My Strengths Are”
People should make [...]

Let’s review:
In Part 1 Naysaying and the Naysaying Naysayers Who Naysay we looked at the practice of naysaying and second-hand naysaying and examined how it works
In Part 2 The “Anti-Book” we looked at the “anti-book”, which is a scrapbook of sorts that claims to be authoritative on all matters relating to the one(s) who have [...]

In yesterday’s post I focused on the common practice of second-hand naysaying. I also mentioned something that serves as a the naysayer’s source book: the “anti-book”. This book (an example here) is a scrapbook of sorts that claims to be authoritative on all matters relating to the one(s) who have been issued “nay” status. It [...]

I don’t mind naysaying; in fact, on occasion, I engage in it. There is certainly plenty of it going on and in this series of three posts I want to (1) examine how it works, (2) make some observations about  the “anti-book”, and then (3) offer some principles or rules of engagement for dealing with [...]

Tom Brokaw (NBC) narrates an accurate and respectful overview of my home and native land – Canada.

Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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There’s a good post over at iMonk.com by Chaplain Mike about Bible stories. This is timely since I just finished reading Genesis again this morning. Some excerpts below… read the whole thing here.
Most of us have the idea that the Bible is a nice book for nice people about nice folks who said and did [...]

John Starke dishes out four things every Pastor I know (myself included) needs to hear. These are a few things for the ambitious — those who tend to make an idol of work, accomplishments, and their self-worth — to keep in mind:
1. You cannot accomplish everything – only God can
God limited the day to 24 [...]

These posts will be a series of study notes and questions for the book that our Life Group is studying together. The book is “Upsidedown” by Tim Bailey. You can read a review of the book and order it here. Feel free to read along and join the discussion in the comments section below.
The content [...]

Do you keep a Sabbath? Do you have one day every week where you ignore the phone, your email, and your “to do” list? I was going to write a great post on what it means to take a sabbath… and then I saw that Darryl Dash already had. In “God’s Gift of Sabbath”, he [...]

I’m no historian. You probably aren’t either. Fortunately, this fact probably won’t serve as a handicap when reading this short book of history.
“The Great Emergence” is a book that makes sweeping generalizations about large swaths of world history. Many conclusions are drawn from these generalizations, which leaves us non-historians in a bit of a bind: [...]