- June 8, 2010You check your emotional pulse and realize that you have taxed your emotional reserves but the demands of ministry continue.…
- June 7, 2010A clergy friend of mine recently went through one of those periods in his pastorate when he had had 5…
- June 4, 2010Pause in the normal work of a presbytery meeting and ask people to spontaneously respond with a word of phrase…
- June 3, 2010We are exploring how a presbytery might help her churches in remembering who they are as the called people of…
- June 2, 2010As Israel was constantly learning, being set apart by God was less a reason for pride than of humble awe.…
- June 1, 2010I believe it was John Bright in his History of Israel who said that a major factor in preventing Israel…
- May 31, 2010I think we have about 11 Monday holidays on this country's calendar. Since I normally took Mondays as my day…
- May 28, 2010You are in a blue funk. You are going through the motions, quite successfully, but internally you are hitting an…
- May 27, 2010Feelings are very mercurial. At one moment they are up and another time they are down. Sometimes we can attribute…
- May 26, 2010Acedia feeds upon the thought that nothing is worthwhile. Ecclesiastes gives expression to such thoughts. "Vanity of vanities, says the…
