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What Pastors Should Know Before Their Sabbatical

September 13, 2011
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 |  Burnout, Church life, Communication, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Family, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks

Note from Paul: I’m pleased to introduce you to guest bloggers Martin Sanders and Warren Bird, who published this article elsewhere. They have graciously agreed […]

7 Ways to Deal with “Worcations”

August 23, 2011
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 |  Burnout, Church life, Conferences, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Family, Fun, Insecurity, Leadership, Life, Margin, Marriage, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Things that drain life, Things that give life

Can you say “worcation”? Apparently, President Obama can! In this article from Fox News, President Obama’s current vacation to Martha’s Vineyard is referred to as […]

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 […]

What Seminary Never Taught Us

February 18, 2011
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 |  Education, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Relationships

If you are not a subscriber to “The Pastor’s Weekly Briefing” delivered from the Focus On The Family Pastoral Ministries Department, I would encourage you […]

Transition Plan

October 2, 2010
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 |  Church life, Communication, Expectations, Leadership, Resignations, Transitions

You don’t have to look too far into the Pastor For Life blog archive to find that a piece of what we are interested in […]

Francis Chan Next Steps

September 3, 2010
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 |  Church life, Communication, Expectations, influence, Leadership, Pastor, Resignations, Transitions

Over on the Mars Hill Church blog, an interview with Francis Chan by Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris was posted. It’s one of the most […]

Some Truth About Burnout, And Some Antidotes

August 3, 2010
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 |  Burnout, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Margin, Pace of life, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life

The New York Times had an excellent article about Clergy Burnout this week. I encourage you to clikc the link and read it. It’s got […]

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