Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Expectations about your seminary experience -- Original languages -- Broken cisterns : a word of counsel on the matter of pastoral self care -- The secret life of a pastor -- Healers, not doctors -- You are the living legacy of those who have gone before : another motivation to go the distance in ministry -- Your wife, your children and the church -- Equippers of the saints -- Infant baptism -- Lambing season -- Only the Word -- Expository preaching -- On the preparation of the pastoral prayer -- Ministering pastorally -- Leadership through change -- Advice for a seminarian -- On leaning towards works in our ministry -- Preach one sermon -- The ground of your ministry -- Sunday night rest -- Conclusion.