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Incredibly Powerful Marriage Material

April 30, 2009
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 |  Conferences, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Family, Marriage, Relationships

If you’re looking for some marriage material that will preach, click here and check back throughout today and after today. The pre-conference is all on […]

Live Blogging the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Pastors & Leaders Conference

April 29, 2009
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 |  Conferences, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Just a reminder that I am going to be live blogging the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Pastors & Leaders Conference, which begins at 12:00 pm EDT […]

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Conference is THIS week!

April 28, 2009
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 |  Emotional health, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Uncategorized

I just arrived in New York City, Queens as a matter of fact. I am excited for this year’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Conference. I plan […]

Study & Planning Break

February 4, 2009
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 |  Burnout, Fun, Leadership, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbaticals, sleep, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks, Things that drain life, Things that give life

One of the practices I learned about through my burnout experience several years ago is the importance of getting away regularly for the purpose of […]

Holding Fast

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 |  Books, death, Depression, Emotional health, grief, Life, Mourning, Suffering, Tragedy, vulnerability

One of my practices while I am on a Study & Planning Break is to read at least one book that doesn’t have anything to […]

Cletus Take The Wheel (Uh-huh, you guessed it!)

January 25, 2009
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 |  Fun, Humor, Laughter

You gotta check out this absolutely hilarious video by comedian Tim Hawkins!

Ted Haggard, etc. ….

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 |  Brokenness, Church life, Church people, Communication, Community, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pastor, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, Tragedy

Having been through some pretty rough pastoral transitions over the years, I am saddened by this week’s news of further allegations of sexual misconduct in […]

Post-Holiday Intense Life Patterns

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 |  Church life, Church people, Emotional health, Family, Fun, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Personal Pace, Relationships, Rest, Things that drain life, Things that give life

Is it just me, or do you find that your counseling requests increase right after the holidays with INTENSE situations? Over the first three weeks […]

Are You Ready?

January 15, 2009
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 |  Emotional health, Fun, Humor, Laughter, Things that give life

You gotta have some fun … if you don’t, that’s part of what sucks the life right out of you. I love this video partly […]

I’ll Be Toast on Thursday! You?

December 22, 2008
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 |  Anxiety, Burnout, Church life, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Things that drain life, Things that give life

Thursday is Christmas Day, and I am as excited about it as anyone gets. I remind our church all through the year how many days […]

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