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Looking For Your Next Place Of Ministry?

April 20, 2010
 |  1 Comment
 |  Change, Communication, Leadership, Life, Pastor, Resignations, Transitions

DJ Chuang has an awesome list of ministries that re helping pastors match churches they can serve and churches find their right pastor as well. […]

Francis Chan Resigns Cornerstone

April 19, 2010
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 |  Change, Church life, Leadership, Pastor, Transitions

Popular pastor, conference speaker, and author, Francis Chan, has resigned the pastorate of the church he started 16 years ago, Cornerstone Community Church. Francis pastors […]

John Piper Taking Leave

April 5, 2010
 |  1 Comment
 |  Communication, Emotional health, Family, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbaticals

You may or may not have heard that John Piper, Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is taking an extended 7 month long […]

Stewarding The Easter “Anointing”

April 1, 2010
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 |  Brokenness, Burnout, Communication, Depression, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Spiritual health, success, Things that drain life, Things that give life, Uncategorized

Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken away.” And Elisha replied, “Please let me inherit a […]

Pastors And Pain

March 23, 2010
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 |  Brokenness, Church life, Church people, death, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Relationships, Rest, Suffering, Things that drain life, Things that give life

We are rapidly moving toward the celebration of Jesus’ death, and Lent is on our minds for those who observe it. A time in which […]

REWORK … I Gotta Read It! You Do Too!

March 12, 2010
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 |  Burnout, Church life, Church people, Communication, Creativity, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Life, Pastor, Relationships, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life

I haven’t read this book yet, but after reading this post at TimSchraeder.com, I will be soon! Thanks for concisely boiling this down for us […]

What Does Tiger Woods’ Apology Say To Pastors?

February 19, 2010
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 |  Affairs, Brokenness, confession, deception, duplicity, Expectations, Failure, Family, influence, Leadership, Marriage, Pastor, Relationships, Sex Addiction, success, Tragedy

You’ve probably heard enough about Tiger Woods’ sordid lifestyle. I have too. And I have no interest in exploiting any of it. However, I have […]

The Dark Side of Ministry

November 11, 2009
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Change, Church life, Church people, death, Depression, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pastor, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Tragedy

Milfred Minitrea of the Missional Church Center, wrote a powerful post on his blog that I think deals with the dark side of ministry and […]

Defining Success

November 5, 2009
 |  3 Comments
 |  Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, success

Success is such a vague concept in Pastoral life. For ages, we’ve defined it by numbers. Whatever numbers we could produce. Numbers of people Numbers […]

Pastors Packing Whose Power?

October 1, 2009
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 |  Church life, Church people, Communication, Community, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Physical health, Violence

Here’s one interesting take on whose power we’re preaching and how …. click here!

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