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Congregational Grief at Crossroads Cincinnati

December 18, 2008
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 |  Church life, Communication, Community, death, Emotional health, grief, Leadership, Mourning, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Spiritual health, Suffering, Things that drain life, Tragedy

The topic of how a church body handles grief and loss is HUGE for a Pastor. How a Pastor and his/her leadership handle it makes […]

Strange Things We Do When God Moves

December 16, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Things that drain life, Things that give life, vulnerability

I was initially going to title this post “Lakeland Revival Learnings”, based on the recent revival/renewal/spiritual stirring that took place earlier this year in Lakeland, […]

Leadership In Its Right Place

December 13, 2008
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Church life, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Pastor Retreat Centers, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life

With this post, I want to introduce you to Dr. Russ Veenker and his wife, Kandy. You can read more below the article on the […]

I Am Second, Are You?

December 8, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, confession, Expectations, Failure, Life, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life

Have you seen the new website creeping up – iamsecond.com? It’s quite insightful. Anyway, Pete Briscoe, Pastor of Bent Tree Fellowship in Texas, shares a […]

A Video Tell-All On Us Pastors?

November 29, 2008
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 |  Burnout, Church life, Church people, death, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Sabbath, sleep, Spiritual health, Things that add life, Things that drain life, Uncategorized

ht: Anne Jackson

Churched … Matthew Paul Turner

November 28, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, Church life, Church people, influence, Leadership, Life, Pastor

I just finished reading Churched by Matthew Paul Turner. The cover was what initially intrigued me. A close-up shot of a kid putting a tie […]

Dispelling Some Myths About Depression

November 21, 2008
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Burnout, Depression, Emotional health, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health

Anne Jackson, author of the soon-to-be-released Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic, and blogger-extraordinaire at Flowerdust.net, wrote about depression in words that are more […]

When Courage Falls Short of the Demands of Reality

November 20, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Failure, Family, Life, Pastor, Relationships

I love “The Purpose-Driven Life”. I dig the “Wagner-Houts Modified Spiritual Gifts Inventory”. There’s not a much more clear tool than the DISC Profile. And […]

Leading On Empty

November 12, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Depression, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health, vulnerability

If you’re following Pastor For Life, you know we’ve been somewhat chronicling the story of Pastor Wayne Cordeiro through his recent heart surgery and his […]

It’s The Little Things

October 30, 2008
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 |  deception, Expectations, Failure, Margin, Pastor, Spiritual health, Things that drain life

For the last couple of years, I’ve been dreading a purchase that I knew was coming at our church. Every Sunday that I walked into […]

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