Especially when we speak about congregations taking care of their pastors, both from the perspective of the pastor and that…

OK, so in the wisdom of the council, given financial realities, a member of the presbytery staff has to be…

We are increasingly hearing that a number of presbyteries, synods, and positions at the General Assembly level are laying off…

Ironically one of the major areas that is often neglected in the pursuit of our calling to ministry, whether that…

Yesterday we considered the blocks of time available in your life each week and how many of them are available…

As a Certified Lay Pastor, (CLP), you need to recognize that you are entering a phase of your life that…

As I understand it, there was a moment in church history in which the Presbyterian Church made a momentous decision…

There may come a time when you are unable to engage in forms of public ministry. There is a profound…

Sometimes, as we age, we develop physical problems that restrict what we can do in ministry. That doesn’t mean that…

Retirement can mean a new freedom to focus on an area of ministry that was often neglected because of the…

Particularly in this time of economic stress among mainline churches, the presbytery wastes a powerful resource in not availing themselves…

It is interesting for me how many otherwise very intelligent and sensitive pastors, upon retirement, are not able to separate…

A game to encourage family conversation about their experience of the ministry. Divide your family into two teams. One team…

Many people who live under pressure also feel that others don’t appreciate the sacrifice that they are making. While the…

While we may read with horror the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac, most pastors know that there is…

On this Easter Monday, when we have just celebrated the resurrection and new life, let us begin building a list…

If you accept that the profession of being a pastor is stressful on both the pastor and his or her…

In the past several blogs, I have dealt a lot with expectations from the congregation, the session, each other, and…

When I return, we will again reflect on the pressure of the ministry on clergy families and how we might…

Sometimes when expectations are named, people will recognize that they are unreasonable and the expectation is altered or discarded. I…