Landon Coleman- Pastor to Pastor Practical Advice for Regular Pastors

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On the latest Equipping You in Grace episode, Dave Jenkins, and Landon Coleman talk about the importance of friendship in ministry, along with advice for ministry leaders, and mentoring, and his book Pastor to Pastor Practical Advice for Regular Pastors (Rainer Publishing, 2016).

What you’ll hear in this episode

The importance of friendship in ministry for encouragement, prayer, and support.
The importance of listening well to people to love and serve them.
Learning to face the fear of man in the fear of God to love God and people.
Older men mentoring younger men.
Younger guys seeking mentoring from older men.
What a regular pastor is.
How to tell a seasoned pastor from an inexperienced one.
Several useful pieces of advice to seminarians preparing for pastoral ministry.
Advice to new pastors and ministry leaders getting started in their first vocational role.
Online seminary verses seminary face-to-face.

About the Guest

Landon Coleman serves as the teaching pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas, where he lives with his wife Brooke. They have four children, Emma, Noelle, Amelia, and Clayton. Landon is a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (MDiv and PhD). He has pastored churches in Kentucky and Oklahoma, and he has taught Old Testament as an adjunct professor at Oklahoma Baptist University and BH Carroll Theological Institute.

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Dave Jenkins( Executive Director )

Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.

Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.

He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).

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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.

Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.

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