Perspectives
Seven Ways to Battle the Urge to Quit 

Seven Ways to Battle the Urge to Quit 

I quit! Admit it. Sometimes you feel like shouting it from the highest rooftop…or the closest podium. I quit!  I’m done with people who are ungrateful and selfish. I’m finished with ministry leaders who serve their own agenda.  I’m exhausted by ministry participants...

Pastor Davey Blackburn: Working Through Unthinkable Grief & Loss

Pastor Davey Blackburn: Working Through Unthinkable Grief & Loss

Just when Pastor Davey Blackburn and his wife were beginning to experience traction in their new ministry at Resonate Church, unthinkable tragedy struck. Davey shares his story of grief and loss and how God is working through his story and bringing revival, working...

Never Stop Learning, Pastor

Never Stop Learning, Pastor

Lawyers. Teachers. CPAs. General contractors. Typically, these and many other professions have required continuing education courses to take, in order to stay up to date with all the latest federal and state laws and/or guidelines. And beyond these vocations that have...

When a Former Pastor Won’t Go Away

When a Former Pastor Won’t Go Away

Throughout our years of ministry, my husband and I have had some wonderful relationships with former pastors of our church and their wives. Normally we see them at funerals—many times my husband and some of the former pastors conduct funerals together, and sometimes...

Hitting a Wall in Ministry

Hitting a Wall in Ministry

Joel Bruce with H2 Ministry shares his story of working in ministry and being wounded by a pastor in leadership over him. He tells how he hit the wall in ministry and how working through the hurt and pain ultimately had a positive impact on his life. Don't let the...

When A Pastor Has Temporary Physical Limitations

When A Pastor Has Temporary Physical Limitations

  A few years ago, my husband decided to buy a small motorcycle. This was during the time when gas was more than $4.00 a gallon locally, and some gas pumps had to shut down temporarily because of a supposed shortage. He went through proper motorcycle training,...

Inspiring Giving in Low-Income Areas

Inspiring Giving in Low-Income Areas

If you pastor a church in a low-income area, giving might be an uncomfortable subject to approach. Even if you aren’t necessarily in a low-income area, but you have many congregants on fixed incomes, you might have the same discomfort. How do you inspire people to...

Filtering Through All the Voices to Find God’s

Filtering Through All the Voices to Find God’s

It’s been said that God gave us two ears and one mouth so that we will listen twice as much as we talk. However, pastors probably need about ten or twelve ears in order to best function. (And no, that’s not a joke about how long their sermons are!) Because they...

Mutual Submissiveness

Mutual Submissiveness

Training seminars and textbooks galore focus on how to lead with compassion, understanding, and authority. What about those who do not serve in a leadership capacity? Are these followers simple sheep, witlessly trailing wherever the leader decides to direct? Or are...

Solving Conflicts When Tensions Are High

Solving Conflicts When Tensions Are High

As today's political climate heats up, we've got to learn how to deal with a certain amount of tension in the air. Conflict in the church takes on various forms. Sometimes the conflict surrounds something the pastor has done, or hasn’t done, or someone thinks he...

Seven Ways to Battle the Urge to Quit 

Seven Ways to Battle the Urge to Quit 

I quit! Admit it. Sometimes you feel like shouting it from the highest rooftop…or the closest podium. I quit!  I’m done with people who are ungrateful and selfish. I’m finished with ministry leaders who serve their own agenda.  I’m exhausted by ministry participants...

Pastor Davey Blackburn: Working Through Unthinkable Grief & Loss

Pastor Davey Blackburn: Working Through Unthinkable Grief & Loss

Just when Pastor Davey Blackburn and his wife were beginning to experience traction in their new ministry at Resonate Church, unthinkable tragedy struck. Davey shares his story of grief and loss and how God is working through his story and bringing revival, working...

Never Stop Learning, Pastor

Never Stop Learning, Pastor

Lawyers. Teachers. CPAs. General contractors. Typically, these and many other professions have required continuing education courses to take, in order to stay up to date with all the latest federal and state laws and/or guidelines. And beyond these vocations that have...

When a Former Pastor Won’t Go Away

When a Former Pastor Won’t Go Away

Throughout our years of ministry, my husband and I have had some wonderful relationships with former pastors of our church and their wives. Normally we see them at funerals—many times my husband and some of the former pastors conduct funerals together, and sometimes...

Hitting a Wall in Ministry

Hitting a Wall in Ministry

Joel Bruce with H2 Ministry shares his story of working in ministry and being wounded by a pastor in leadership over him. He tells how he hit the wall in ministry and how working through the hurt and pain ultimately had a positive impact on his life. Don't let the...

When A Pastor Has Temporary Physical Limitations

When A Pastor Has Temporary Physical Limitations

  A few years ago, my husband decided to buy a small motorcycle. This was during the time when gas was more than $4.00 a gallon locally, and some gas pumps had to shut down temporarily because of a supposed shortage. He went through proper motorcycle training,...

Inspiring Giving in Low-Income Areas

Inspiring Giving in Low-Income Areas

If you pastor a church in a low-income area, giving might be an uncomfortable subject to approach. Even if you aren’t necessarily in a low-income area, but you have many congregants on fixed incomes, you might have the same discomfort. How do you inspire people to...

Filtering Through All the Voices to Find God’s

Filtering Through All the Voices to Find God’s

It’s been said that God gave us two ears and one mouth so that we will listen twice as much as we talk. However, pastors probably need about ten or twelve ears in order to best function. (And no, that’s not a joke about how long their sermons are!) Because they...

Mutual Submissiveness

Mutual Submissiveness

Training seminars and textbooks galore focus on how to lead with compassion, understanding, and authority. What about those who do not serve in a leadership capacity? Are these followers simple sheep, witlessly trailing wherever the leader decides to direct? Or are...

Solving Conflicts When Tensions Are High

Solving Conflicts When Tensions Are High

As today's political climate heats up, we've got to learn how to deal with a certain amount of tension in the air. Conflict in the church takes on various forms. Sometimes the conflict surrounds something the pastor has done, or hasn’t done, or someone thinks he...

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