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18 Jun Healthy Follow-Up to Gary Lamb Post

Posted at 01:26h in 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 by pkuzma 1 Comment

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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 also a Pastor, suggested I look at a video teaching by Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, called "The Heart of a Champion". Friends,...

11 Jun Redeeming the Secular

Posted at 13:51h in Communication, confession, Family, Fun, Humor, Laughter, Life, Marriage, Relationships, Things that add life by pkuzma 1 Comment

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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 LA Times' Chris Erskine, I immediately thought of how some of the things we lament in our culture can truly...

09 Jun Another Pastor Down

Posted at 01:21h in Brokenness, Burnout, confession, duplicity, Emotional health, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Pastor Retreat Centers, Personal Pace, Relationships, Rest, Sabbaticals, Things that drain life, Tragedy, vulnerability by pkuzma 4 Comments

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The news has sadly been circulating the internet over the last couple days regarding the confession of Pastor Gary Lamb at his blog of an affair with his assistant. There's already enough opinion flying around about who is for who, who hasn't said what and...

25 Jan Ted Haggard, etc. ….

Posted at 00:48h in Brokenness, Church life, Church people, Communication, Community, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pastor, Sex Addiction, Spiritual health, Tragedy by pkuzma 0 Comments

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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 the situation surrounding Ted Haggard and New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I commend Pastor Brady Boyd for his forthright...

08 Dec I Am Second, Are You?

Posted at 20:49h in Brokenness, confession, Expectations, Failure, Life, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life by pkuzma 3 Comments

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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 bit of his testimony that I think is great for Pastors to hear. It's only a few minutes, but may shake...

20 Nov When Courage Falls Short of the Demands of Reality

Posted at 02:02h in Brokenness, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Failure, Family, Life, Pastor, Relationships by pkuzma 2 Comments

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I love "The Purpose-Driven Life". I dig the "Wagner-Houts Modified Spiritual Gifts Inventory". There's not a much more clear tool than the DISC Profile. And when it comes to bare-bones personality information, nothing beats the MMPI for depth of definition. As good as all of that...

29 Aug “Healer” Author Confesses His Real Need For Healing

Posted at 08:44h in Brokenness, Burnout, confession, deception, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Margin, Pastor, Rest, Sex Addiction, success, vulnerability by pkuzma 0 Comments

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In no way do I mean for this post to be a judgment or condemnation, nor a condoning, of the sorrowful circumstances that surround the story of Michael Guglielmucci. He is the author of a song very recently released on the latest Hillsong Worship DVD album,...