Category: Clergy

  • May 28, 2014
    SAYING A GOOD GOODBYE  We continue to think about how a well loved pastor should prepare the congregation for the…

  • May 26, 2014
    HEALTHY PASTORATES FEEL GOOD If you have had a good experience as pastor of a church over several years, then…

  • May 23, 2014
    THE AWEFUL CALL It is awful to be called by God in the original sense of the word.  Consider the…

  • May 21, 2014
    SEXUAL SCANDAL PLAGUES THE CHURCH It happened again. A descent pastor with multiple gifts destroys his promising ministry by having…

  • May 19, 2014
    I'm developing a series called "Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations." (HCMHC). All of it is in preparation for the fall…

  • May 16, 2014
    OK, SO YOU HAVE RETIRED I retired in June of 2006. The first thing I wanted to do was find…

  • May 14, 2014
    I'VE RUN THE RACE A few years before I retired, the Presbyterian Church debated whether Honorably Retired should be the…

  • May 12, 2014
    This is a litany making use of Psalm 111. Draw upon what you have heard about the gifts and contributions…

  • May 9, 2014
    CONGREGATIONAL INITIATIVE The celebration of the ministry of a church's staff needs to be initiated by the congregational leadership. This…

  • May 7, 2014
    HALF PASTORS OR WHOLE PASTORS If we tend to neglect appreciating the work of pastors, we double that neglect when…