When You Can’t Seem to Bounce Back…
After my head-on collision with pastoral burnout, a Christian counselor told me bluntly: “You didn’t get this way overnight. You won’t get healthy overnight...
On Earth As It Is In Heaven
“This will be a completely full flight.” It was the announcement I had been dreading. While I consider myself an extrovert, once I’ve hit...
Why Every Pastor Should Have a Retirement Fund
The Bible teaches us that saving for the future is wise. In the Book of Proverbs, King Solomon tells us to consider the tiny...
Hoarding Junk
I have a hard time watching those hoarding TV shows. Something about them just turns my stomach. I can’t imagine what would possess someone to look...
Three Common Approaches to Church Conflict and Why They Fall Short
Conflict avoidance is a primary strategy for many people, especially in the church. “The world is full of conflict. Church should be a place...
How to Grow Through Disappointment Rather Than Die In Delay
Jesus said in John 10:10, “I have come that you might have life and life more abundantly.”
And yet, if we could be honest, we...
The Foster Church Movement
By Thom S. Rainer
Fostering and adoption are typically words connected to families and individuals.
But now the movements are connected to congregations as well. It...
Finding Your Purpose
Do you wonder what you’re supposed to be doing with your life? Do you wonder if you’re in the right job or following the...
Empathy: a Key to Loving Our Neighbors
“Learn to relate to others through My Love rather than yours…Instead of trying harder to help people through your own paltry supplies,become aware of...
How God Built Himself a House
“Does God live up there?” When I pastored a church that ran a preschool, that’s what one little girl asked me during a chapel...
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Watch Out for the Bad Guys and Also for the Good Ones.
“And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds in thine hands?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in...
Three Questions to Ask When Recruiting Volunteers by Geoffrey Graff
Hey, everybody! My name is Geoffrey. I oversee our Family Ministries at Faith Family Church – that's our nursery, preschool, kids, youth, young adults...
# 1 Overlooked Quality of a Leader
Good leaders are toughminded. They’re able to take the heat. They can handle the difficult stuff comes their way.
Leaders who are considered soft, weak,...
