Pastors Must Advocate for Their Mental Health
Mental Health Awareness Month is a good reminder that you, pastor, need to advocate for your mental health in a community that will be supportive as ...
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Hope and Help for Anxious Pastors
Suffering puts Christ on display in ways that comfortable living cannot. Enduring pain in ministry makes Jesus shine brighter, which brings more ...
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Living as Sons of Issachar
“The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on ...
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Shepherding Your PK Through Doubt
All my life, I’ve been a PK. That’s short for “Pastor’s Kid.” Anytime the church’s doors were open, we rolled up in our minivan, and we ...
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Motherhood Sorrows and the Pastor’s Family
Even a faithful, experienced pastor can struggle to know what to say or do when suffering touches his family. For the pastor seeking to lead his ...
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Fostering a Church Culture for Foster Care
Our experience with foster care in our own family and encouraging and advocating for foster care and adoption in our church has taught us a few ways ...
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6 Conflict Resolution Principles for Pastors
Our aim as pastors and church leaders should not be “conflict avoidance” but “conflict resolution.” Here are a few things to keep in mind. ...
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Fighting Pastoral Anxiety: Fearing God More Than Our People
In big black letters, his coffee cup read, “I don’t care.” I couldn’t believe it. Why would a pastor carry such a thing around the ...
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Dear Pastor: Require Premarital Counselling
Many couples enter marriage ill-prepared for the challenges that might come. Premarital counseling allows you to walk alongside couples before they ...
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How Do You Balance Motherhood with Being a Pastor’s Wife?
Recently, on my way to find the first aid kit to grab a Band-Aid for my daughter, a church staff member asked me to relay a message to my ...
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Six Temptations Every Pastor Faces
Every person faces challenges and struggles at work. Pastors encounter a unique blend. The pastor’s life and ministry carry a special ...
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How Should Pastors Respond to Pride Month?
According to the automatically populated tag on my phone’s calendar, June is LGBT Pride month. The choice of June for this celebration is a nod to ...
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