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- March 12, 2014
Over the next month I will be packing, selling my house, and moving from North Carolina to Westminster Shores in…
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If clergy speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but congregations do not have love, clergy are noisy…
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YOU ARE A PERSON WHO CARES ABOUT CLERGY You care about clergy because: You believe that God calls clergy to…
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YOU HEAR THE CALL OF GOD How shall you respond? God, I can't afford to give up the security of…
- March 3, 2014
A HEALTHY FIRST YEAR Any good pastor is going to work long hours, experience a continuing roller coaster of emotional…
, - February 28, 2014
GETTING TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU A major challenge for not only the pastor but the pastor’s family is how…
, - February 26, 2014
GETTING STARTED RIGHT OK, you have completed the process of identifying a new pastor for the congregation, making the offer…
, - February 24, 2014
Step Six Assume, for the purpose of this experience, that God had a hand in the previously noted twists and…
- February 21, 2014
What I would like to offer you is a clear, step by step design to enable you to reflect on…
- February 19, 2014
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE STRESS In explaining why he writes these tales, the author speaks of the nature of ministry. "When…
- February 17, 2014
We continue our discussion of issues in ministry stimulated by the third story in Clergy Tales—Tails: When God Wags the…
- February 14, 2014
WHEN CLERGY TURN ON THEMSELVES This third story in Clergy Tales—Tails: When God Wags the Tale, amzn.to/15TORlR begins with the…
- February 12, 2014
The conversation continues. You may not have encountered a sniper in your ministry, but there are probably several parallel if…
- February 10, 2014
Now we turn to the second story in Volume 3 of Clergy Tales—Tails: When God Wags the Tale. A Hypocritical…
- February 7, 2014
We continue to draw lessons about ministry from the fictional story Truth and Consequences, amzn.to/15TORlR . This part engages the particular…
- February 5, 2014
We continue making use of these fictional stories to explore the complexity of ministry. Today is the first part of…
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