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13 Sep What Pastors Should Know Before Their Sabbatical

Posted at 09:42h in Burnout, Church life, Communication, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Family, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbath, Sabbaticals, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks by pkuzma 3 Comments

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Note from Paul: I'm pleased to introduce you to guest bloggers Martin Sanders and Warren Bird, who published this article elsewhere. They have graciously agreed to allow us to run it here as it so well pertains to "resourcing pastors for a lifetime of life-giving...

23 Aug 7 Ways to Deal with “Worcations”

Posted at 15:33h in Burnout, Church life, Conferences, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, Family, Fun, Insecurity, Leadership, Life, Margin, Marriage, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Can you say "worcation"? Apparently, President Obama can! In this article from Fox News, President Obama's current vacation to Martha's Vineyard is referred to as a "worcation". The word is not new to our culture. UrbanDictionary.com has it in their list. I didn't need to look it...

11 Jul What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 3

Posted at 08:02h in Anxiety, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, influence, Insecurity, Leadership, Relationships, success by pkuzma 4 Comments

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It's been a while since I've posted on this issue of insecurity in pastor and leaders. Recently, I read something that Mark Batterson (pastor of National Community Church in Washington DC) wrote about the topic: He wrote: I think influence and insecurity are opposites. Insecure leaders don’t...

31 May What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 2

Posted at 06:05h in Anxiety, Church life, Church people, confession, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Insecurity, Leadership, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Spiritual health, success, vulnerability by pkuzma 0 Comments

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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, I introduce you to Scott Couchenour. You can get to know him here. I encourage you to get to know...

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...

21 Feb Is There Such A Thing As Christian Pornography?

Posted at 08:51h in Anxiety, Brokenness, Conferences, confession, Leadership, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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I admit the title of this post is extreme. Let's get that out of the way right now. I think there is such a thing as Christian pornography. I could probably have thought of a better term for what I am thinking, but I suspect that many...

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...