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Pastoring In Pandemic, Part 4: Herding COVID Cats

May 21, 2020
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 |  Anxiety, Church life, Church people, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Relationships, Uncategorized

We all agree that we are living in the strangest of times. Opinions about why we are and what we are “supposed to” do about […]

Pastoring In Pandemic, Part 3: Enlarging Your Soul Through Coronavirus Grief & Loss

April 11, 2020
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 |  Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, death, Depression, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, grief, Mental Health, Mourning, Pastor, Sabbath, Spiritual health

On Good Friday. April 10, 2020 (a poignant day to do such a thing), I had the privilege of spending about 90 minutes with a […]

Pastoring in Pandemic, Part 1: Distress That Drives Us Closer

March 23, 2020
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 |  Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Emotional health, Mental Health, Pastor, Stress

A historic number of pastors flood today’s Internet bandwidth in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s a new way to pastor, and that […]

Reducing the Rate of Pastoral Suicides

December 17, 2013
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 |  Anxiety, Books, Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, grief, Leadership, Margin, Mental Health, Mourning, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Sabbath, Spiritual health, suicide, Tragedy

Suicide is not a new issue by any means. When a family member of a pastor commits suicide, we’re certainly sad and feel for the […]

What Bill Hybels Wants Every Pastor To Know

June 24, 2012
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Change, confession, Depression, duplicity, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Family, grief, Insecurity, Leadership, Life, Margin, Marriage, Mourning, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Relationships, Rest, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, success, Suffering, Things that add life, Things that give life, vulnerability

…. how he got into counseling. Yes, you read that right! Bill Hybels really wants you to know that he’s in counseling, and he believes […]

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 4

February 16, 2012
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 |  Anxiety, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, influence, Insecurity, Leadership, Relationships, success

In an occasional series, we’ve been addressing the issue of insecurity in leadership. Perry Noble came out today with a great list of ways you […]

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 3

July 11, 2011
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 |  Anxiety, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, influence, Insecurity, Leadership, Relationships, success

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this issue of insecurity in pastor and leaders. Recently, I read something that Mark Batterson (pastor of […]

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 2

May 31, 2011
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 |  Anxiety, Church life, Church people, confession, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Insecurity, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Spiritual health, success, vulnerability

In my last post (too long ago), I mentioned I would be writing more on the issue of insecurity, especially within pastors and leaders. Today, […]

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There

March 22, 2011
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 |  Anxiety, Burnout, Church life, Church people, confession, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Insecurity, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Spiritual health, success, vulnerability

A few recent conversations with a pastor friend of mine have raised an issue that I’ve found true for my life. Maybe you can relate […]

Is There Such A Thing As Christian Pornography?

February 21, 2011
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Conferences, confession, Leadership, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life

I admit the title of this post is extreme. Let’s get that out of the way right now. I think there is such a thing […]

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