CALLED BY GOD AND HIRED BY A CONGREGATION Pastors sense God’s call in their lives and then choose to prepare…

IT HELPS TO LAUGH On my website, www.smccutchan.com ,you will find God Laughs–Why Don’t You? : Making Use of Humor in…

BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT FUN Because of our schedules, we have to be intentional about finding time to be with someone…

YOU ARE NOT IN THIS ALONE As has been mentioned in previous posts, most observers of the health of clergy…

ALONE IN THE CROWD How does a pastor cope with the features of his or her profession that contribute to…

LOVE ADVICE COLUMN Recently I found myself reading a Dear Abby advice column and began to wonder how this might…

THE POWER OF APPRECIATION   Most human beings hunger for signs that people appreciate them and what they do. I…

HOW TO ENRICH CLERGY FRIENDS   Studies confirm what clergy know that loneliness is one of the realities of ministry.…

A progressive Feast in Parabolic storytelling wants your name attached to a story that will lift people’s spirits and cause…

BUILDING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CLERGY All General Presbyters/Presbytery Executives know the challenge. First, we live in an age of institutional…

ADMIT IT, WE ARE A MIXTURE OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES WE KNOW IT’S TRUE We know that we are not…

IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that two major contributors to improved health are being social and doing nice…

CREATIVE FINANCE Back after WWII, when there was a freeze on salaries, companies had to get creative in how they…

YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH   It is important to occasionally take time to have a checkup. Of course the annual physical…

SOMETIMES LESS IS MORE SEVEN WORD REFLECTION Sometimes less is more and fewer words dig deeper. A presbytery can encourage…

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LAUGH   A FUN EXPERIMENT WITH COLLEAGUES Try this experiment. Choose a couple of colleagues and…

MAJORITY RULES This is an adaption of a community building game adapted to a church community. The set up for…

Church Conflict – You Be the Judge Despite Jesus prayer that we may be one so that the world would believe…

HOW TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN’T VERIFY Ronald Reagan famously coined the phrase that you should trust and verify. Whether…

BIBLICAL JOURNEY OF TRUST A major theme running throughout the biblical story is the theme of trust. Trust involves risk.…