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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When Ministry Is Killing You

August 18, 2008
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 |  Burnout, Church life, death, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Rest, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life, Things that give life

Who said it? What was meant by it? Did they really even know what they were saying? Somewhere, somehow, we ‘ve lost sight of the […]

The Secret of Your WHAT?

August 13, 2008
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 |  Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pastor, success

There is a seedy little enemy that has set itself against the soul of every single leader in the Church. It has rung the bell […]

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