Dear pastor You are loved. You matter to God. He sees you, hears your cries and knows the struggles in your life. God is present right there with you. He is working on your behalf. He is availing, providing and sourcing all that you need. Though life and ministry might seem bleak, stalled out orContinueContinue reading “The gospel for pastors”
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Things that pastors and PKs see
Here are a few things that I believe pastors and PKs (Pastors’ Kids) see that others sometimes miss. The church and ministry, though mysterious in many ways, are also simply physical expressions of things that we choose to believe and the activities we choose to engage in It is not the perfection of the participantsContinueContinue reading “Things that pastors and PKs see”
The stuff we do matters
Dear pastor, I have told you before how much you matter to God. But in this post, I want to mention how the stuff that you do day to day matters. It is so easy to think that the little things we do daily (like checking email, sending text messages, calling people, making social mediaContinueContinue reading “The stuff we do matters”
The loneliness of ministry
Why is ministry so lonely? Here are a few of my thoughts on why pastors can be surrounded by people and yet feel lonely, alone, unseen, unheard, unvalued or misunderstood… Because very few people understand what we go through as pastors (what we feel, experience, etc) Because so many of us pastors work in smallContinueContinue reading “The loneliness of ministry”