May 27, 2020 | Covid 19, Pastor's Life, Personal Development, Podcast
Pastor Resources · Pastoring Durring Covid – 19 COVID-19 burst onto the global scene out of nowhere. Well, not out of nowhere. However, in terms of the things you expected to experience in 2020, yes, it figuratively burst onto the scene out of nowhere. Then...
May 26, 2020 | Church Matters
Pastor Resources · Four Essential Characteristics Of A Healthy Church Culture What are the characteristics of a church with a healthy culture? Let’s look at four of them. First, the people in a healthy culture know the church doesn’t exist for its own self but for...
May 25, 2020 | Church Matters, Leadership
Pastor Resources · Pastor Resources – Narcissism The beloved priest-psychologist Henri Nouwen wasn’t trying to define narcissism, but he might as well have been, when he wrote: The long painful history of the Church is the history of people ever and again...
May 22, 2020 | Personal Development, Refreshment
Habits are patterns that have been practiced so many times that they develop high-speed connections in the brain—up to 200 times faster than connections forged through normal thinking. Habits of faith improve character and have three requirements: (1) practice, (2)...
May 21, 2020 | Church Matters, Editor's Pick, Featured, Inspiration, Pastor's Life, Personal Development, Podcast
Pastor Resources · The Gospel The word Gospel occurs multiple times throughout the New Testament. It’s first appearance is in Matthew chapter 4 and it’s last is in Revelation chapter 14 and most of the books in between use this phrase. Paul uses it more than...
May 20, 2020 | Covid 19, Creativity, Perspectives, Podcast, Respond to latest issue
Pastor Resources · Appreciating Nature – Appreciating Nature I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how nature and creation has been really significant to us and to our family in these last few days. Like you, our lives have been turned upside...
May 19, 2020 | Missions, Perspectives, Podcast
Pastor Resources · Can’t We All Just Get Along “Can’t we all just get along?” became a popular saying after Rodney King uttered this question during riots in Los Angeles in 1992. Many would think these words are not needed in churches either because we have...
May 18, 2020 | Covid 19, Pastor's Life, Personal Development, Podcast
Pastor Resources · Healthy Marriage When You're Together 24.7 Like a lot of us, I’m stuck at home today. I’m blessed to be trapped here with my family. In fact, we’ve done a lot of things to try to make this new reality more enjoyable and more fun for all...
May 15, 2020 | Leadership, Pastor's Life, Personal Development, Perspectives, Podcast, slider
We are witnessing endless accounts of leaders who have received the flag of disqualification, raised the white flag of premature surrender, or thrown in the towel because of debilitating discouragement. No doubt, the complexities of modern ministry, the onslaught of...