Topics:

1. Pastor Shortages
2. Do you have to love your job?
3. Jesus and the terrifying "narrow door" (Luke 13:22-30)
4. Rapture crazy-talk
5. Mental illness in the ministry

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Ringside Podcast Symposium: September 19-22 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Community College: Friday, November 4 at Grace Lutheran in Ventura, CA

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Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess "Man"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Divine Image, William Blake

craftofpreaching.com

Younger Pastors More Likely to Say They Struggle With Mental Illness, Christianity Today