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- January 14, 2013
One of the surprises for a person who experiences his or her first experience of being head of a staff…
, - January 11, 2013
How often have you heard someone say, I'm spiritual but I'm not religious. If I hear them right, being religious…
- January 9, 2013
Before you get too righteous about how fundamentalist respond, consider some of the words liberals can't use without having a…
, - January 7, 2013
It isn't what we say but how we say it that can mess us up. We live in a divided…
, - January 4, 2013
Consider some basic assumptions. One that God is real, personally involved in this world, and has called you to ministry.…
, - January 2, 2013
Allow your imagination to dream about the ideal faith journey for your congregation through this Lent-Easter season before you get…
- December 21, 2012
Violence is often the result of distrust. The Challenge of Trust in building a safer society.
- December 19, 2012
What any of us can do in response to the horror in Newtown, Conn.
- December 17, 2012
The slaughter of the innocents in both Bethlehem and Newtown Connecticut are real pain even as we celebrate the birth…
- December 14, 2012
In recent blogs I've tried to identify some dimensions of ministry that can cause pastors to feel like hypocrites. Sometimes…
, - December 12, 2012
I think I have shared an earlier version of this exercise before, but here is an updated version. An Examination…
, - December 11, 2012
If you want to know why you sometimes feel overwhelmed and exhausted, take a moment to reflect on the emotional…
- December 7, 2012
In the last blog, I asked you to name some of your own hypocrisies. I suggested you try to identify…
, - December 5, 2012
The first step in following the Hypocritic Oath for Pastors, is to name some of the times when we are…
, - December 3, 2012
I once saw a sign outside of a church that read: "The church is full of hypocrites; You too are…
, - November 30, 2012
While it is understandable that we will have periods of anger and doubt, as expressed in Psalm 22, it is…
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