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- March 16, 2016
It is important to occasionally take time to have a checkup. Of course the annual physical is important, but so…
, - March 11, 2016
In the last blog, I shared a check list for a pastor to use for measuring how s/he cares about…
, - March 9, 2016
Let me offer you a check up sheet to measure how you are doing in caring for your own physical…
- March 4, 2016
PREPARATION FOR THE CONVERSATION See the previous blog for more information on how to engage your congregation in a spiritual…
- March 2, 2016
A SPIRITUAL CHECKUP I want to suggest a way for you to engage your congregation in a spiritual conversation that…
- February 26, 2016
Contemporary Spirituality for the Busy Professional Purpose: To design a contemporary discipline that would enable a busy professional to…
, - February 24, 2016
HELPING JESUS FACE REALITY Jesus has been traveling across Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The…
, - February 19, 2016
One Future for Denominations In reading Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat I was struck with its implications for denominationalism.…
- February 17, 2016
An Imaginary Conversation in a Cynical Society Another seismic change has occurred in the way we experience the church. At…
- February 12, 2016
FEBRUARY 15 DEADLINE On Monday, February 15, the final phase of our three phase contest, AN EXPERIMENT IN MODERN PARABLES,…
- February 10, 2016
I CELEBRATE GOD'S GIFT On February 4 I celebrated my seventy-fifth year of life. In September I will have been ordained…
, - February 3, 2016
Pastors Need Their Own Lenten Experience Ash Wednesday comes very early this year. February 10 seems to be arriving before…
, - January 29, 2016
POST SABBATICAL It is not unusual for a pastor and a pastor’s family to experience what I can best describe…
- January 27, 2016
WELCOMING PASTOR BACK FROM SABBATICAL I thought you might like to see a sample of a litany that a…
, - January 22, 2016
An Experiment in Sabbath Time Recently, while discussing some sabbatical plans for a pastor, I began imagining with him a…
- January 20, 2016
PRESBYTERY WITNESS Since we live in a secular society that has lost its appreciation for the Sabbath, and churches…
Let’s Create a Healthy Church
July 5, 2019
A NEW GUIDE FOR JUDICATORIES This booklet offers a specific plan for how religious judicatories can nurture and support healthy…
DOES GOD ANSWER JESUS PRAYER?
July 3, 2019
“The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are…
HOW ONE CHURCH LOVES ANOTHER CHURCH
June 28, 2019
HOW ONE CHURCH LOVES A NEIGHBOR CHURCH This is a follow up on a previous blog about loving your neighbor-church.…
A Fun Exercise for a Church to Deepen Their Faith
June 26, 2019
MAKE USE OF TECHNOLOGY Here is one way to offer your congregation an opportunity to grow in their faith as…
IMAGINATION ENRICHES FAITH
June 21, 2019
CONSIDER WHAT IT WOULD MEAN I’ve just returned from a trip that included about 2,000 miles driving my new Subaru…
HELP CLERGY LAUGH
June 19, 2019
It is a good spiritual investment to learn how to laugh at yourself, life’s situations, and our own journey with…
A Gift for Clergy You Care About
June 5, 2019
We all have emotions. The question is whether we engage them in a healthy manner or not.
HEALTHY CLERGY SERIES NEARING COMPLETION
May 29, 2019
I will be traveling for the next month. When I return I will complete the final two books in the…