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Healthy Follow-Up to Gary Lamb Post

June 18, 2009
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 |  Brokenness, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Failure, Marriage, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Relationships, Sabbath, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, Things that add life, Things that drain life

After last week’s post about the resignation of Pastor Gary Lamb due to an affair with his assistant, a good friend of mine, who is […]

Study & Planning Break

February 4, 2009
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 |  Burnout, Fun, Leadership, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbaticals, sleep, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks, Things that drain life, Things that give life

One of the practices I learned about through my burnout experience several years ago is the importance of getting away regularly for the purpose of […]

Ted Haggard, etc. ….

January 25, 2009
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 |  Brokenness, Church life, Church people, Communication, Community, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pastor, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, Tragedy

Having been through some pretty rough pastoral transitions over the years, I am saddened by this week’s news of further allegations of sexual misconduct in […]

Congregational Grief at Crossroads Cincinnati

December 18, 2008
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 |  Church life, Communication, Community, death, Emotional health, grief, Leadership, Mourning, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Spiritual health, Suffering, Things that drain life, Tragedy

The topic of how a church body handles grief and loss is HUGE for a Pastor. How a Pastor and his/her leadership handle it makes […]

Leadership In Its Right Place

December 13, 2008
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Church life, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Pastor Retreat Centers, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life

With this post, I want to introduce you to Dr. Russ Veenker and his wife, Kandy. You can read more below the article on the […]

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

Dispelling Some Myths About Depression

November 21, 2008
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 |  Anxiety, Brokenness, Burnout, Depression, Emotional health, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health

Anne Jackson, author of the soon-to-be-released Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic, and blogger-extraordinaire at Flowerdust.net, wrote about depression in words that are more […]

Leading On Empty

November 12, 2008
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 |  Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Depression, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health, vulnerability

If you’re following Pastor For Life, you know we’ve been somewhat chronicling the story of Pastor Wayne Cordeiro through his recent heart surgery and his […]

It’s The Little Things

October 30, 2008
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 |  deception, Expectations, Failure, Margin, Pastor, Spiritual health, Things that drain life

For the last couple of years, I’ve been dreading a purchase that I knew was coming at our church. Every Sunday that I walked into […]

Adrenal Letdown

October 27, 2008
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 |  Burnout, Depression, Emotional health, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, sleep, Spiritual health

I’ve heard it said that preaching for an hour can equal the energy output of 3-4 hours worth of work. Multiply that for Pastors who […]

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