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Stewarding The Easter “Anointing”

April 1, 2010

| 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

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| 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 […]

Rest That Sleep Can’t Provide

November 4, 2009

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| Burnout, Church life, Emotional health, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, sleep, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks, Things that give life

Josh Patterson, Executive Pastor at The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas, wrote this great post recently on the topic of real rest … I […]

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!

Even The Contemplative Struggle With Burnout

July 30, 2009

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| Anxiety, Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Church people, confession, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Fun, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life

You may or may not have heard of Father Peter Norden, founder of a large social justice agency in Australia called Jesuit Social Services and […]

Creating a Culture of Balance

July 5, 2009

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| Burnout, Church life, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Family, influence, Leadership, Margin, Marriage, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, success, Things that drain life, Things that give life

I recently read a great paper available from Leadership Network on how Pastors in their 20’s and 30’s are dealing with the stress and strain […]