Category: Clergy

  • June 15, 2010
    All professions have their impact on the families of the person in that profession. You could probably name both positive…
  • June 11, 2010
    Once you have some images of what might be good for you and your church through the process we identified…
  • June 10, 2010
    Sometimes we can get so mired down in the daily details that we can lose perspective. Even if you are…
  • June 9, 2010
    You are conscious of the drain on your emotional resources, vacation is still a while off, but you can carve…
  • June 8, 2010
    You check your emotional pulse and realize that you have taxed your emotional reserves but the demands of ministry continue.…
  • June 7, 2010
    A clergy friend of mine recently went through one of those periods in his pastorate when he had had 5…
  • June 4, 2010
    Pause in the normal work of a presbytery meeting and ask people to spontaneously respond with a word of phrase…
  • June 3, 2010
    We are exploring how a presbytery might help her churches in remembering who they are as the called people of…
  • June 2, 2010
    As Israel was constantly learning, being set apart by God was less a reason for pride than of humble awe.…
  • June 1, 2010
    I believe it was John Bright in his History of Israel who said that a major factor in preventing Israel…