Leaders have to resist the temptation of reducing their calling to servicing complaints. That always ends with idolatry.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Even when we reach the Promised Land we are still confronted with giants in our way. The Promised Land is not Paradise.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Unlike the Red Sea the Jordan doesn’t part until the priests take a step of faith in them. This was the goal of the hard journey.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Monday, December 7, 2015

Saturday, May 23, 2015

President Barnes’ 2015 Commencement Address

Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey

April 26, 2019 | The Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry

Closing Worship

Preacher: Dr. Eric Barreto, Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary

2016 Commencement Address

Saturday, May 21

Princeton University Chapel

Speaker: M. Craig Barnes, president and professor of pastoral ministry, Princeton Theological Seminary

Jesus accepts his arrest only because he knows he must drink from God’s cup. According to the prophets this is a cup of anger. But in drinking the cup Jesus transforms it into a cup of com-passion.

Sermon: “Humility”

This ancient hymn depicts fundamental paradigm for the followers of Jesus Christ who led us up to God by bowing down so very low.

Sermon: Gravitas

Those who offer leadership in any form of ministry need to have not only skills but also a weighty soul that offers gravitational attraction. How is this found? According to the text it is found through hardship, an inherited tradition, and the biblical text.