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Summer Days Got You In A Daze?

June 23, 2009

| Anxiety, Burnout, Church life, Depression, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Things that add life, Things that drain life

Summer brings with it all of its splendor and, hopefully, the anticipation of some down time with family and friends. How are you facing it […]

Redeeming the Secular

June 11, 2009

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| Communication, confession, Family, Fun, Humor, Laughter, Life, Marriage, Relationships, Things that add life

I know this post may cause some controversy, especially following my last post. However, when my wife encouraged me to read this column from the […]

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 […]

Post-Holiday Intense Life Patterns

January 25, 2009

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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 […]

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

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 […]

“Healer” Author Confesses His Real Need For Healing

August 29, 2008

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| Brokenness, Burnout, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Margin, Pastor, Rest, Sex Addiction, success, vulnerability

In no way do I mean for this post to be a judgment or condemnation, nor a condoning, of the sorrowful circumstances that surround the […]

Integrity Is ALWAYS An Issue

August 22, 2008

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| Church life, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Life, Pace of life, Pastor, success

This week, we’ve been inundated with a couple of Christian Leader Integrity issues that seemingly are undermining the plans and purposes of God. No doubt […]

The Road To POP

August 15, 2008

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| Burnout, Church life, death, Depression, Emotional health, Failure, Family, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Relationships, Rest, Spiritual health, Things that add life, Things that drain life

Mike Foster …. can you make it any more clear than this? I mean, come on, I’m not quite sure I get what you’re saying […]

Disconnecting Can Be A Good Thing!

August 14, 2008

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| Church life, Expectations, Family, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Rest, Things that add life

Mark Batterson of National Community Church in Washington, DC, adds to the conversation regarding my concept of “regular guy” weekends. Thoughts? I just wrote an […]