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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,...

04 Feb Study & Planning Break

Posted at 15:58h in Burnout, Fun, Leadership, Margin, Message Preparation, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Sabbaticals, sleep, Spiritual health, Study & Planning Breaks, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 3 Comments

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One of the practices I learned about through my burnout experience several years ago is the importance of getting away regularly for the purpose of clearing my head and heart, being with God, and hearing His voice. It's not as intense as it may sound...

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...

18 Dec Congregational Grief at Crossroads Cincinnati

Posted at 10:49h in Church life, Communication, Community, death, Emotional health, grief, Leadership, Mourning, Pastor, Personal Pace, Rest, Spiritual health, Suffering, Things that drain life, Tragedy by pkuzma 0 Comments

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The topic of how a church body handles grief and loss is HUGE for a Pastor. How a Pastor and his/her leadership handle it makes all the difference in the world. News comes from Cincinnati this morning about a tragic accident that occurred during a Christmas...

13 Dec Leadership In Its Right Place

Posted at 00:47h in Anxiety, Brokenness, Church life, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Pastor, Pastor Retreat Centers, Spiritual health, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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With this post, I want to introduce you to Dr. Russ Veenker and his wife, Kandy. You can read more below the article on the stuff they do. Essentially, this is one of the the guys that God used to save my hide when I...

29 Nov A Video Tell-All On Us Pastors?

Posted at 02:07h in Burnout, Church life, Church people, death, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Family, Leadership, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Sabbath, sleep, Spiritual health, Things that add life, Things that drain life, Uncategorized by pkuzma 0 Comments

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ht: Anne Jackson...

21 Nov Dispelling Some Myths About Depression

Posted at 21:06h in Anxiety, Brokenness, Burnout, Depression, Emotional health, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Anne Jackson, author of the soon-to-be-released Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic, and blogger-extraordinaire at Flowerdust.net, wrote about depression in words that are more than adequate. I REALLY encourage you to go there and read it....

12 Nov Leading On Empty

Posted at 10:22h in Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Depression, duplicity, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Spiritual health, vulnerability by pkuzma 1 Comment

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If you're following Pastor For Life, you know we've been somewhat chronicling the story of Pastor Wayne Cordeiro through his recent heart surgery and his return to the pulpit following this encounter. I am a regular reader of his blog ...

30 Oct It’s The Little Things

Posted at 23:45h in deception, Expectations, Failure, Margin, Pastor, Spiritual health, Things that drain life by pkuzma 1 Comment

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For the last couple of years, I've been dreading a purchase that I knew was coming at our church. Every Sunday that I walked into the Sanctuary, I would look at the big projection screen, convinced that the resolution was slowly but surely on the...

27 Oct Adrenal Letdown

Posted at 18:15h in Burnout, Depression, Emotional health, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, sleep, Spiritual health by pkuzma 0 Comments

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I've heard it said that preaching for an hour can equal the energy output of 3-4 hours worth of work. Multiply that for Pastors who preach at multiple services by the number of services they preach at each weekend. Arch Hart, in his book, "Adrenaline &...