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Faithful Presence offers a growing library of resources designed to help pastors, leaders, and thoughtful Christians engage Scripture, culture, and ministry with depth and clarity. Whether through weekly devotional reflections, timely pastoral insight, or long-form theological essays, each resource is created to encourage faithful presence in everyday life and leadership. Explore The Presence Weekly for Scripture-centered devotionals, The Pastor’s Briefing for practical and cultural insight for ministry leaders, and The Journal for curated collections of essays centered around a single important theme.
Presence Weekly
Scripture-centered devotionals to ground your week in the presence of Christ.
Presence Weekly 5/4/26: The Merciful and Merciless Public Square
The Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are the Merciful [First Things] The new website is coming! We will have lots of new content, discipleship resources, and opportunities to engage in whole-life discipleship, in the whole of life, for the whole of the public square. We are searching for a half-time Chief of Staff! Successful references […]
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Presence Weekly 4/20/26: The Quest for Satisfaction
The Sermon on the Mount: Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness [First Things] Faithful Presence just received a sizable grant to help us scale our ministry efforts! After months of work, we are nearing the launch of our new website and branding, new content, and the public release of several big announcements. […]
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Presence Weekly 4/13/25: The Power of Meekness
Blessed are the Meek, The Sermon on the Mount (Part 3) [First Things] We’re hiring! Faithful Presence is looking for a part-time Chief of Staff to join our growing team and help oversee a number of current capacity-building and scaling initiatives. [The Devo] The Power of Meekness Seeing the crowds, he went up on the […]
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Our Podcast
Conversations on faith, culture, and leadership for those living out their calling in the public square.
Podcast: Dr. Anthony Bradley on "Holistic Discipleship"
What it means to hold foot-on-the-ground theology and what we can learn from the book of Exodus about trauma and anxiety, and care for those who experience these things. The Faithful Presence Podcast is honored to host Dr. Anthony Bradly. Dr Bradly is a distinguished scholar, theologian, and public intellectual whose work spans theology, ethics, […]
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Podcast: Dr. Stephen Presley on "Discipleship and the Early Church"
What the Early Church, The Office, and great jazz can teach us about living faithfully today in the roles God has given us. On this episode, we are thrilled to have Dr. Stephen Presley with us. Stephen O. Presley is the author of two award-winning books, Cultural Sanctification (2024), and Biblical Theology in the Life […]
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Podcast: Dr. John Bowman on "Intellectual Discipleship"
The relevance of classical education and good theology! In this episode, we welcome Dr. Josh Bowman, who serves as the Executive Director of the Ciceronian Society and as Director of Operations at All Saints Holland Anglican Church. He previously taught courses in American politics, law, environmental studies, and political philosophy at multiple universities, including Hope […]
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Presence Journal
Practical and cultural insight to equip ministry leaders for the week ahead.
Narcissism in Leadership
by Rev. Michael Coggin Rev. Michael Coggin Note: This essay is from the author’s forthcoming book, On Spiritual Abuse, and this excerpt was was given to Faithful Presence for pre-publication use in this edition of the Presence journal. Over the last few years, followers of Christ and those outside of the church have come to […]
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The Important Contrast of Our Values
Lessons on Faithful Presence from 1 Peter Rev. Michael Langer My son-in-law is all about Texas. He loves Texas. He grew up on a ranch in Texas. He went to Texas A&M (which I think is a cult). He holds Texas in high regard and always wants to see Texas succeed. Now, he is celebrating […]
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Excellent Leadership: The 4C Profile
Dr. Charlie Self One glance at the headlines and we see a global crisis of leadership. In addition to the (alas, the almost expected) personal and institutional corruption and oppression, we are experiencing the consequences of two generations of separating personal and professional ethics, and the displacement of personal agency with the Leviathan of control […]
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Pastor’s Briefing
Helping you get from Policy to the Pulpit without Partisanship.
Pastor's Briefing: Foreign Aid
Reflecting on the Moral Imperative of Loving our Neighbor and State Sovereignty Summary If there is a moral imperative for government officials to ensure that the State is properly fulfilling its role as an“authority…instituted by God,” then Christians serving and leading in government must consider their responsibility to restrain evil from occurring to their neighbors. […]
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Pastor's Briefing: The Abortion Debate
Why deep experience, deep thought, and deep conviction matter to how we answer the four questions of faithful presence. Much has been written on the nature and importance of the historically orthodox Christian church’s response on the issue of abortion. Any article that deals with this topic runs the risk of having the conversation ended […]
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Pastor's Briefing: The Legality of Homelessness
For some workers, that could mean reassignment, as regulations that agencies enforce could be drastically altered. For constituents, it could mean the loss or restoration of much-needed support. This week, we look at another Supreme Court decision that has implications across the country: City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. This decision, handed down in June, […]
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