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16 Feb What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There, Part 4

Posted at 12:05h in Anxiety, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, influence, Insecurity, Leadership, Relationships, success by pkuzma 0 Comments

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In an occasional series, we've been addressing the issue of insecurity in leadership. Perry Noble came out today with a great list of ways you can determine whether or not you are a leader who struggles with insecurity. Quick disclaimers: We ALL struggle with insecurity when...

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...

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...

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...

04 Oct Pastor Wayne Cordeiro Resting After Heart Surgery

Posted at 19:55h in Burnout, Communication, influence, Leadership, Pace of life, Pastor, Physical health, Rest by pkuzma 8 Comments

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Wayne Cordeiro, Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship (a Foursquare Church, the tribe I am part of) in Honolulu, Hawaii, is resting and recovering from significant heart surgery he underwent at Stanford Medical Center in Northern California. Part of his statement reported, "My right artery was...

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...

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...