Pray That We Slow Down
PreachFor Executive Director, Trygve Johnson, visited the University of Michigan on a beautiful autumn day. He shares what the students at the Michigan Christian Study Center asked him for, and why it gave him hope.
The Boy From Watts and the Word That Healed A Wound
There’s a particular kind of man who walks into a room and you can feel the weight land before he says a word. Angulus Wilson is that kind of man. He is the quality of pastor - the quality of a man - whose presence is as much a gift as his wisdom. PreachFor Executive Director, Trygve Johnson, joins a conversation with Angulus, one of the most gifted and least self-important pastors he has met in a long while.
On Calling, Cost, and the Living God: A Conversation with Jacob Smith
What does it really mean to be called to ministry—and what does that calling cost? Rev. Jacob Smith reflects candidly with PreachFor Executive Director, Dr. Trygve D. Johnson, on hearing God’s call, the difference between churches that flourish and those that stagnate, the challenges facing a new generation of pastors, and why, after all these years, he’d still choose this life.
The Grammar of Grace
Part 2 of the series When the Lights Go Out explores the impact when the Gospel is not preached.
The Coming Crisis
Something is quietly happening to the pastoral leadership of the church in North America — the aging out, the burnout, the emptying pulpits, the communities that are losing something they don't yet know how to name. PreachFor’s Trygve Johnson describes how the coming pastor shortage is not just an institutional problem. It is a human one. A spiritual one. A civilizational one. Part 1 of the series When the Lights Go Out describes how the numbers are real, the consequences are larger than most people know, and the window for responding is open — but not indefinitely.
The Thing We Don’t Say
There is a subtle conversation happening in Christian homes all across this country. It centers on why we quietly talk our children out of giving their life to the Church. Check out Trygve Johnson’s Substack, The Kingfisher Study. Enjoy, and subscribe.
Why So Many Pastors Quietly Burn Out
Why leaders burn out in silence, and why we keep letting them. Read on in Trygve Johnson’s Substack, The Kingfisher Study. Enjoy, and subscribe!
The Church is Not Dying
Have you heard that secularism has won, and the pews are emptying? The diagnosis may be wrong. Instead, the Church is not dying - it’s being refined. Read on in Trygve Johnson’s Substack, The Kingfisher Study, and be sure to subscribe.
Practice Resurrection
What feels like an ending may actually be an invitation. Read more in Trygve Johnson’s Substack, The Kingfisher Study, and subscribe.