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Building Trust When You Can’t Verify
August 17, 2016 | Steve
HOW TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN’T VERIFY Ronald Reagan famously coined the phrase that you should trust and verify. Whether…
A COMMUNITY OF HEALTHY TRUST
August 12, 2016 | Steve
BIBLICAL JOURNEY OF TRUST A major theme running throughout the biblical story is the theme of trust. Trust involves risk.…
WHO DO YOU TRUST–HILLARY, DONALD, OR GOD?
August 10, 2016 | Steve
AN AGE OF DISTRUST Polls have shown the unlikeability factor for both of our major candidates for the presidency.…
YOU CAN DO IT, ITS FOR YOU, ITS YOU.
August 5, 2016 | Steve
U U U Imagine yourself being part of a nationwide creative conversation about a significant issue facing the church. Picture…
IMPERFECT CHURCHES WITH IMPERFECT PASTORS
August 3, 2016 | Steve
In the final chapter of Clergy Tails—Tales, www.smccutchan.com, the author offers some reflections on ministry and the nature of church in…
LITANY BETWEEN GOD AND ONE WHO IS CALLED
July 29, 2016 | Steve
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOD AND ANY HUMAN THAT GOD MIGHT CALL. Leader: You are called to serve God. People:…
Living in an Anxious Society
July 27, 2016 | Steve
DO YOU LIVE IN AN ANXIOUS SOCIETY? (I am continuing to draw upon Brene’ Brown’s work on vulnerability and applying…
AFFIRMING UNHEALTHY CLERGY
July 22, 2016 | Steve
CLERGY DON’T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER Clergy, like all humans, come to their work with all the wounds, hungers, insecurities,…
HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY CHURCHES
July 20, 2016 | Steve
IMAGE OF AN UNHEALTHY CHURCH We live in an anxious age and the church is tempted to reflect that anxiety…
WAS JESUS A POOR JUDGE OF CHARACTER?
July 15, 2016 | Steve
JESUS’ CRITERIA When you consider the twelve disciples, you have to wonder what criteria Jesus was using when he…
CELEBRATING GOD’S IMPERFECT CHURCH
July 13, 2016 | Steve
NOT THINKING LIKE HUMANS I think it was Loren Eiseley who said if humans had designed the universe, they would…
A GAME OF COLORS
July 8, 2016 | Steve
A Spiritual Mood Color Here is a game that can be played with some clergy friends. Begin with some clergy…
A THEOLOGICAL GAME FOR CLERGY FUN
July 6, 2016 | Steve
Doctrine, Doctrine, Who’s Got the Doctrine The set up for this game is that you invite three or four…
You Are Not Alone
July 1, 2016 | Steve
A Company of Pastors offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in…
GAME TWO ABOUT GOD’S CALL
June 29, 2016 | Steve
AFTER REFRESHMENTS OK, you have played the first phase as described in the previous blog, and you have taken time…
PLAYING WITH GOD’S CALL
June 24, 2016 | Steve
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK Because we are people of the Book, it is good to call on Scripture as we…
WHO CARES IF GOD CALLS US OR NOT?
June 22, 2016 | Steve
LET’S GATHER WITH OTHER CLERGY I’m working on some material for the next conference of the Presbytery Pastoral Care Network,…
A LITANY IN ANTICIPATION OF THE END OF OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY
June 17, 2016 | Steve
This litany was prepared as a response to the conclusion of our 222nd General Assembly. Feel free to use it…
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER CREATIVELY
June 15, 2016 | Steve
The Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) invites all writers (and those who have dreamed about writing) to compose a short story.…
God’s Call–A Poem
June 10, 2016 | Steve
God’s Call — A poem I’m not so sure That God called me I am a pastor The Spirit…