What’s the Difference Both healthy and unhealthy clergy experience stress and challenges. The difference is how they respond to them.…

We are a Community of Faith One of the cultural assumptions often accepted by a congregation is that the pastor…

Whining Doesn’t Help As pastors, all of us experience insults and behavior that causes us personal pain. I know from…

1. We aren’t saved by perfection Pastor: If the people had a stronger commitment to (Bible, Justice, Ethical life, Church,…

When God calls, some natural responses are: God, I can’t afford to give up the security of my profession to…

God’s Call for All People In the Reformed faith, we believe that all people have a call from God. Of…

If People Ask It, I’ll Do It Many of us enter the ministry with a deep desire to serve others…

An Enemy Within the Church Almost every pastor has the experience of having some person or persons within the membership…

With apologies to David Letterman, this is my list. You probably can come up with even better ones. It’s better…

 I am away this week at the annual conference of the Presbytery Pastoral Care Network that is meeting prior to…

I’m not so sure That God called me I am a pastor The Spirit is gone   The elders are…

The third volume of Clergy Tales–Tails is now available on Kindle on Amazon. You can, and I hope you will…

Was Jesus Being Naieve We call it The Great Commission. Go therefore and make disciples of all Nations, baptizing them…

Failure of the Reformation I’ve been thinking about all of the fighting that goes on among our churches and the…

Here is one way to offer your congregation an opportunity to grow in their faith as a church and as…

The Game of Theology Buy yourself a package of 3 x 5 cards and stick a few in your pocket…

Recently studies of clergy health like the Duke Clergy Health study, have emphasized the quality of resiliency as important for…

In reading Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat I was struck with its implications for denominationalism. One of the problems…

  Where are denominations headed? What will they look like in the future? As I understand it, denominations developed more…

Recently I learned that a pastor’s spouse had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The word has spread through the congregation,…