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How To Remain Sane During The Easter Season
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Easter season is upon us! It’s time to dust off those eggs, play costumes, and plastic lilies. This one holiday is the “Super Bowl” for many churches and leaders, but let’s be real … IT CAN ALSO BE EXHAUSTING! Many church leaders are already trying to sike themselves up for…
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How To Deal With Loneliness In Ministry
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Have you ever felt the loneliness that comes with being in the ministry? Standing in a crowded room, but feeling alone inside … Listening to others tell you about their problems, but feeling like you have no one to talk to … Feeling like you’re living on an island by…
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Things Successful Church Leaders “ARE NOT”
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What makes a church leader successful? Is it the size of their ministry … The number of degrees they’ve earned … Or maybe the number of people they’ve led to Christ? In a world that obsesses about achieving success … I wonder how God measures it. I would bet He…
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Does Your Team Think You’re A Jerk?
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Have you ever made a team member cry? I have. As I remember, we were all sitting in my living room for our first youth leader meeting. I began discussing how each of us should set an example for our teens by attending Sunday school each week. When I was…
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Small Changes To Your Workspace That Will Bring Huge Results
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As church leaders, we spend a lot of time sitting at our desk. This area can be where the true magic happens as God gives us vision, direction, and that next great sermon idea. But it can also be where we feel anxiety and stress the most. We can’t find…
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Can You Thrive As A Bi-Vocational Pastor
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Picture this … You are clocking out at your job, but your day is not done. Instead of driving home to a warm meal and rest, you still have three people from your church to visit in the hospital. You go home, shower, put on fresh clothes, hug your family,…
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Are You A Full-Time Pastor … But A Part-Time Christian?
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As I was reading a new book I got by Craig Groeschel entitled, “Think Ahead,” one phrase leaped off the pages: “Are you a full-time pastor … but a part-time Christian?” Wow, what a “bomb” of a question! It dropped into the depths of my soul and exploded. Craig was asking a…
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Things To Remember When You Want To Quit
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Can I ask you a question … if I promised not to tell anyone else what your answer will be? “Have you ever felt like quitting?” Maybe it’s because more people are leaving than coming to your church … Maybe it’s that same group that critiques every one of your…
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The Hidden Principle Of “Intentional Margins”
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As a church leader, have you ever felt maxed out? That feeling of being busy “all the time”? I can remember that feeling all too well. A couple of years ago I was sitting in my office listening to a person from my church who happened to stop by (unannounced)…
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Warning Signs We Are Chasing “False Success” In Ministry
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What does “real success” in ministry look like? How do we measure it? And is the success we’re striving for come from the world’s point of view or God’s? Have you noticed that this topic seems to be flooding your inboxes, streaming services, and social media platforms? Most bookstores have even…