Leadership
How To Cope With Change (Part 2 Of 2)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-108 Rod Benson helps dispel popular myths in a series of six sermons: I can make changes in my life quickly and painlessly. ————————————- HOW TO COPE WITH CHANGE (Part 2 of 2) ————————————- The myth that we ought to be able to change our lives overnight is a myth that causes […]
How To Handle Stress
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-113 Rod Benson helps dispel popular myths in a series of six sermons: #5 – Other people cause my stress ——————– HOW TO HANDLE STRESS ——————– In his book, Adrenalin and Stress, Arch Hart suggests that stress can result from anything that annoys you, threatens, excites, scares, worries, hurries, angers, frustrates or […]
Leadership Insights
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS JULY 2001 Paul Arnott This month a review of a new book called Hard to be Holy, which the director of the National Church Life Survey, Peter Kaldor describes as a “must read for all those in leadership and congregations in a changing Australia.” Also a fascinating interview with Brian McLaren, who has […]
The Church I Want
I think I want to open a church that is open to all people –punkers, gothics, blue collars, suits, divorced, singles, outcasts, freaks, geeks, doubters, the broken and abused, smokers, drinkers and maybe even a few “Thomas Kinkade perfect family” types; A church that is X-rated (Busters), and Y-rated (Millennials). A church that embraces the […]
Leadership Insights – June 2001
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS JUNE 2001 One of the lessons I’ve learned over the past six months is that when you’re in the midst of a crisis there’s only one thing to do: Let go and let God. Sounds like a cliche and maybe it is. But trying to control our way out of crises generally doesn’t […]
Towards A Better Hymnody
by Frank J. Funston FRANK J. FUNSTON is, by profession, a teacher in Victorian High Schools, and has been stationed for 23 years past at Essendon High School. He is a member of North Essendon church and has served extensively on brotherhood committees, with over 20 years in the Social Service Department. Since 1942, he […]
Post-Traumatic Stress: The Pastoral Experience
Dear Fellow-Yoked, Recently I read the comment that “pastors only have one turn-around church in their bones.” Whether it is true or not is, perhaps, still to be decided. Nevertheless, those who have experienced the pain of trying to make a turn-around ministry happen often experience things they may not ever expected. The resulting consequences […]
Good Preaching [2]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-048 GOOD PREACHING (2) From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. How are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? Romans 10:14. Good preaching is pastoral (comforting the afflicted) and prophetic (afflicting the comfortable). It is interesting, warm, ‘confessional’ […]
Women In The Church
THE INVISIBLE IMAGE The ageing single woman in the church by Brigid O’Carroll There have been many sad moments in my life as a woman: times when I am sad on my own behalf and times when I am sad on behalf of others. Such a moment happened in Beijing in September, 1995, when the […]
Senior Ministers’ Covenant
COVENANT (For Senior Minister) The ______________________________ Church of ________________________________ (the “Church”) and _________________________________ (the “Minister”) do hereby acknowledge that we have been led to each other by the Holy Spirit to join in a ministry intended to be mutually profitable to the spiritual interest of the Church and fruitful for the Kingdom of our Lord. […]
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