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03 Sep Your Personal Pace, Part 5

Posted at 23:09h in Church life, Emotional health, Expectations, Leadership, Life, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, Things that give life by pkuzma 5 Comments

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I want to keep moving in this series of posts on your personal pace. Click on these link to get to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. We all have job descriptions. Pastors do too. We also all have expectations. Some of those...

28 Aug What Else Would YOU Do?

Posted at 15:38h in Anxiety, Burnout, Emotional health, Expectations, Failure, Life, Pastor, Spiritual health, success, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 1 Comment

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I enjoyed a lunch appointment today, catching up with a Pastor friend who has just come off of his first Sabbatical that lasted about three months. We got to talking about an aspect of vocational ministry that I have come to believe over time can...

18 Aug When Ministry Is Killing You

Posted at 09:00h in Burnout, Church life, death, Expectations, Failure, Leadership, Life, Margin, Pace of life, Pastor, Rest, success, Things that add life, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 1 Comment

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Who said it? What was meant by it? Did they really even know what they were saying? Somewhere, somehow, we 've lost sight of the things that truly matter and set our sights on some things that don't. As a result, the very thing we got...

17 Jul Your Personal Pace, Part 2

Posted at 07:36h in Burnout, Church life, Expectations, Leadership, Life, Pace of life, Pastor, Personal Pace, success, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 1 Comment

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In this post, I'd like to chat a bit about the different components and stages of your life that ought to play into the determination of what your pace is. By the way, I am not a proponent of breaking this thing down so far...

12 May Margin and/or the Lack Thereof

Posted at 07:48h in Burnout, Church life, Expectations, Life, Margin, Pastor, Rest, Sabbath, Things that drain life, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Bob Hyatt over at PastorHacks.com writes this GREAT post about margin in our lives. So important for anyone in ministry, vocational or bi-vocational (or tri-vocational) to learn to build margin into every area of life....

22 Apr Time For A Break?

Posted at 07:22h in Pastor, Rest, Things that give life, Uncategorized by pkuzma 2 Comments

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When was the last time you got away for at least a couple days? Away from the demands and calls and emails and websurfing? Away from the emergencies and urgencies of your life and ministry? I am right now enjoying a gift from our District Supervisor...

20 Apr Regular Rest & Refreshing for Pastors

Posted at 06:00h in Burnout, Expectations, Life, Pastor, Rest, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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After preaching tomorrow, I'm packing and heading out of town for a couple days. I'm thankful for my District Supervisor, who values the need for Pastors to get away. He set up a two day break for our District Pastors to head up to Pismo...

24 Feb Pastors & Friendships, Part 2

Posted at 00:03h in Church life, Church people, Expectations, Life, Pastor, Relationships, Things that give life by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Craig Groeschel is writing a series of posts on Ministry Friendships. The link to Part 2 of “Becoming Friends With Your Pastor” is here. Check out Part 1 here....