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17 Dec Reducing the Rate of Pastoral Suicides

Posted at 00:53h in Anxiety, Books, Brokenness, Burnout, Church life, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Expectations, grief, Leadership, Margin, Mental Health, Mourning, Pastor, Personal Pace, Physical health, Rest, Sabbath, Spiritual health, suicide, Tragedy by pkuzma 0 Comments

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Suicide is not a new issue by any means. When a family member of a pastor commits suicide, we're certainly sad and feel for the pastor and other family members. When a pastor commits suicide, now THAT we don't expect. It's a bit more deeply...

06 Apr Rick Warren’s Youngest Son Commits Suicide

Posted at 13:30h in Brokenness, Church life, death, Depression, Emotional health, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Family, grief, Leadership, Life, Mental Health, Mourning, Pastor, Suffering, Tragedy by pkuzma 3 Comments

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News has broken this morning of the suicide of the youngest son of Rick & Kay Warren. Rick is the Pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life." His wording from an email sent to their congregation at about 10:00 am...

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...