Month: November 2012

  • November 30, 2012
    While it is understandable that we will have periods of anger and doubt, as expressed in Psalm 22, it is…
  • November 28, 2012
    Psalm 22 provides a biblical template for responding to the emotionally stressful atmosphere around us in a spiritually healthy way.…
  • November 26, 2012
    We have just passed through the season of Thanksgiving. The power of praise and thanksgiving as an antibody to the…
  • November 21, 2012
    In my last blog, I spoke of the importance of naming your feelings and begin to place your emotional experience…
  • November 19, 2012
    When you have had a traumatic experience, or sympathetically shared in the trauma of another person, the feelings can be…
  • November 16, 2012
    A key antibody that resists the toxic atmosphere in which we must live is the maintenance of a sense of…
  • November 14, 2012
    A third part of developing your antibodies, is developing some clarity as to the limits of your ministry. The integrity…
  • November 12, 2012
    A challenge for ministry is that frequently you are asked to hear and respond to other people's pain, then drink…
  • November 9, 2012
    When you are listening to another person intensely while they are sharing their pain, it is natural that your own…
  • November 7, 2012
    While there are certainly traumatic events that a pastor experiences in exercising the ministry, a less obvious but very real…