Pastoral Confessions, Jamin Goggin
Pastoral Confessions, Jamin Goggin
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Pastoral Confessions
The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry

Author: Jamin Goggin

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/21/2025


Synopsis

In an age of pastoral abuse, scandal, and failure, many pastors feel pressured to appear sinless. They are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But concealing sin is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian.

Using the seven deadly sins as a framework, Pastoral Confessions offers burdened and burned-out pastors a healthy way forward out of the quagmire of hidden sins. With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, pastor Jamin Goggin writes of his own temptations and sins, especially those that uniquely appeal to the pastor's heart and plague the pastoral profession. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry.

About Jamin Goggin

Jamin Goggin serves as a pastor at Mission Hills Church. He has been in pastoral ministry for eleven years, including several years as the Pastor of Spiritual Formation at Saddleback Church. Jamin speaks and writes in the areas of spiritual formation, ministry and theology. He holds two Masters degrees and is currently earning a PhD in systematic theology. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Kristin, and their three children.
 
 
 
 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Noah on December 03, 2025

This is an important and necessary book, although it’s not a fun one. Pastors are sinful, and they need to confess their sins to God and trustworthy brothers and sisters. It’s non-negotiable. That’s the basic argument. Shepherds should lead the way in bringing their failures into the light, so that......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 01, 2025

Goggin does a masterful job of inviting pastors, and all of us, into the grace of God through confession. Vital for the health of the church. Vulnerable and important work.......more

Goodreads review by Jon on November 06, 2025

This is a very hard book to read. No, not because it's written at an academic level that escapes most people. Instead, it functions like a mirror to reveal the soul for what is is - the contributions of a heart that is a swirl of chaos and a mind that has not meditated on how deep inside sin truly g......more