At least once every five years, I think it is important to pause and check one’s vocational pulse. You need…

We can get so busy responding to the many legitimate demands of ministry that we don’t pause to breathe. Somewhere…

One of the areas in which I have found satisfaction in retirement is that of consciously reaching out in supportive…

After you have spent some time cleansing yourself of accumulated cynicism and healing the wounds of the past, it is…

Yesterday I suggested that you review your career from the perspective of your retirement and name some of the more…

Over the years of a long professional career, it is easy to build up a crust of protective cynicism. In…

As you seek to discern where God is calling you in your retirement phase, I would offer you some possible…

Yesterday you examined in written form how God had initially called you to ministry and noted any clues in that…

Reflect back on how you discerned God’s call that started you on the journey towards ministry. It is different for…

There seem to be two initial responses as one enters retirement after a long career as a pastor. For some,…

I have now experienced about four years of retirement from being pastor of a church. Near the time that I…

Taking my own advice, I’m taking a few days off to visit my daughter.

I’m not sure whether there is any comfort in the fact that the struggles that clergy are experiencing are not…

Another version of depression is seasonal. Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that affects a person…

I’m sure it must be true for others as well, but clergy can easily experience a large measure of guilt…

Studies indicate a rise in depression among clergy. The first things for a judicatory or congregation to recognize are the…

Yesterday may have been a little grandiose in looking at our temptations. Today, still remembering the temptations that Jesus experienced…

Previously I suggested that you look at the temptation story in Matthew 4:1-11. The context is that it proceeds immediately…

Yesterday we spoke of recalling the story of your call. I cannot emphasize enough how important that is. As Israel…

As we mentioned last week, the very nature of our profession involves the pressure to compromise our calling. You are…