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22 Mar What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There

Posted at 12:15h in Anxiety, Burnout, Church life, Church people, confession, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Insecurity, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Spiritual health, success, vulnerability by pkuzma 2 Comments

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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 to it as well. My friend has been in full-time ministry as a Senior Pastor for over 30 years. He's served...

18 Feb What Seminary Never Taught Us

Posted at 11:20h in Education, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Relationships by pkuzma 0 Comments

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If you are not a subscriber to "The Pastor's Weekly Briefing" delivered from the Focus On The Family Pastoral Ministries Department, I would encourage you to get signed up here. Each edition features a letter from HB London, who heads the Department. This week, he wrote...

02 Oct Transition Plan

Posted at 15:40h in Church life, Communication, Expectations, Leadership, Resignations, Transitions by pkuzma 1 Comment

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You don't have to look too far into the Pastor For Life blog archive to find that a piece of what we are interested in highlighting, documenting, or noting for Pastors has to do with pastoral transitions. While we don't catch them all, we try...

03 Sep Francis Chan Next Steps

Posted at 12:36h in Church life, Communication, Expectations, influence, Leadership, Pastor, Resignations, Transitions by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Over on the Mars Hill Church blog, an interview with Francis Chan by Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris was posted. It's one of the most candid interviews I think I've seen. Many people have wondered, "What's Francis doing now that he's not at Cornerstone?" This video interview...

03 Aug Some Truth About Burnout, And Some Antidotes

Posted at 17:23h in Burnout, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Margin, Pace of life, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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The New York Times had an excellent article about Clergy Burnout this week. I encourage you to clikc the link and read it. It's got some good information. However, packed full of antidotes to burnout is a blog post from Perry Noble. I'd encourage youeven more...

01 Apr Stewarding The Easter “Anointing”

Posted at 14:02h in Brokenness, Burnout, Communication, Depression, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Relationships, Rest, Sabbath, Spiritual health, success, Things that drain life, Things that give life, Uncategorized by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken away.” And Elisha replied, “Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit and become your successor.” “You have asked a difficult ...

23 Mar Pastors And Pain

Posted at 14:52h in Brokenness, Church life, Church people, death, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Relationships, Rest, Suffering, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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We are rapidly moving toward the celebration of Jesus' death, and Lent is on our minds for those who observe it. A time in which we make sacrifices to in some way thank God for and identify with the sacrifice Jesus made for us. A...

12 Mar REWORK … I Gotta Read It! You Do Too!

Posted at 10:20h in Burnout, Church life, Church people, Communication, Creativity, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Life, Pastor, Relationships, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life by pkuzma 2 Comments

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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 Tim! 10 Things That Drive Me Crazy About Working for a Church I’m nearing the 10-year mark of being a church...

19 Feb What Does Tiger Woods’ Apology Say To Pastors?

Posted at 11:59h in Affairs, Brokenness, confession, deception, duplicity, Expectations, Failure, Family, influence, Leadership, Marriage, Pastor, Relationships, Sex Addiction, success, Tragedy by pkuzma 0 Comments

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You've probably heard enough about Tiger Woods' sordid lifestyle. I have too. And I have no interest in exploiting any of it. However, I have a lot of interest, for myself and any other Pastor, in learning from it. I have no interest in analyzing Tiger's...

06 Jan Reducing Stress Proving To Prolong Life

Posted at 13:29h in Burnout, death, Emotional health, Expectations, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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FoxNews.com is carrying a story on the effects of stress reduction being proven to add years to one's life. Honestly, none of us know how long we'll live, only God does. However, we're called also to be good stewards of our resources. NOBODY can live WITHOUT...