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Someone has designated October as pastor appreciation month. It got me to thinking how both giving and receiving appreciation is…

Allow Psalm 22 to gather up your prayer for a frustrating time in your ministry. Based on Psalm 22 O…

I have found allowing the psalms to guide me in preparing a prayer has taught me a lot about how…

A major faith issue that we all have to face honestly is whether we believe that the infinite God does…

When we approach Scripture from a sacramental perspective, we are making the faith assumption that God not only called us…

Recently I was leading a workshop on how clergy care for themselves. One of the suggestions was that clergy could…

Too often we decry the fractionalism of the church but neglect a simple act as a clergy that could make…

Because we are part of a profession that is generally underpaid relative to our education and skill set, and frequently…

In my forty years of ministry, I can’t remember when a member of the presbytery staff called me simply to…

When you boil it down to the core, many people live their lives feeling unappreciated and largely ignored. It is…