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20 Apr Looking For Your Next Place Of Ministry?

Posted at 12:01h in Change, Communication, Leadership, Life, Pastor, Resignations, Transitions by pkuzma 1 Comment

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DJ Chuang has an awesome list of ministries that re helping pastors match churches they can serve and churches find their right pastor as well. While I copy the entire post here for convenience, I encourage you to check out DJ's blog for other awesome...

19 Apr Francis Chan Resigns Cornerstone

Posted at 23:48h in Change, Church life, Leadership, Pastor, Transitions by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Popular pastor, conference speaker, and author, Francis Chan, has resigned the pastorate of the church he started 16 years ago, Cornerstone Community Church. Francis pastors in the same city I do (Simi Valley, CA), and Cornerstone is located just a mile down the street from...

05 Apr John Piper Taking Leave

Posted at 12:06h in Communication, Emotional health, Family, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbaticals by pkuzma 1 Comment

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You may or may not have heard that John Piper, Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is taking an extended 7 month long leave of absence, starting on May 1. You can read his statement here. You can read the Bethlehem Elder's response here. I commend...

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...

11 Nov The Dark Side of Ministry

Posted at 23:17h in Anxiety, Brokenness, Change, Church life, Church people, death, Depression, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, grief, Leadership, Pastor, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Tragedy by pkuzma 9 Comments

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Milfred Minitrea of the Missional Church Center, wrote a powerful post on his blog that I think deals with the dark side of ministry and how Pastors are constantly dealing with the issue of congregational change management and ministry effectiveness. In His post called, "Depression: Pastors...

05 Nov Defining Success

Posted at 19:10h in Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, success by pkuzma 3 Comments

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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 of dollars Numbers of buildings Numbers of salvations Numbers of baptisms. You number it and we'll count it in the final tally! For the last "number" of...

01 Oct Pastors Packing Whose Power?

Posted at 23:15h in Church life, Church people, Communication, Community, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Physical health, Violence by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Here's one interesting take on whose power we're preaching and how ...