Things that add life – Pastor For Life

What Bill Hybels Wants Every Pastor To Know

June 24, 2012

| Anxiety, Brokenness, Change, confession, Depression, duplicity, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Family, grief, Insecurity, Leadership, Life, Margin, Marriage, Mourning, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Relationships, Rest, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, success, Suffering, Things that add life, Things that give life, vulnerability

…. how he got into counseling. Yes, you read that right! Bill Hybels really wants you to know that he’s in counseling, and he believes […]

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 […]

Summer Days Got You In A Daze?

June 23, 2009

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| 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 […]

Good Stuff Coming From Gary Lamb’s Pain

June 20, 2009

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| Burnout, duplicity, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Failure, Leadership, Pastor, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Things that add life

When I speak of anything good coming from someone’s pain, it’s not news to any real leader. The best stuff of life and ministry, especially […]

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 […]

If You’re Getting Very Sleepy….

June 12, 2009

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| Burnout, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, sleep, Things that add life

I’ve posted about sleep before here. Napping, in particular. Numerous studies show that most of us are NOT getting the amount or the quality of […]

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 […]

I Am Second, Are You?

December 8, 2008

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| Brokenness, confession, Expectations, Failure, Life, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life

Have you seen the new website creeping up – iamsecond.com? It’s quite insightful. Anyway, Pete Briscoe, Pastor of Bent Tree Fellowship in Texas, shares a […]

A Video Tell-All On Us Pastors?

November 29, 2008

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Distractions Extraordinaire

October 1, 2008

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| Anxiety, Burnout, Church life, Creativity, Emotional health, Leadership, Life, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Things that add life

You don’t have to be in ministry to know both the rush and frustration of distractions. We want to know how we can avoid them, […]