Leadership
Pastoral Stress
Ministers affirm hope as key to dealing with stress & burnout By Stella Anderson LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)–Dec. 1, 1995, is a day Len Turner will never forget. It was the day his world came tumbling down around him. As pastor of a leading Southern Baptist church in south Georgia, the 48-year-old pastor seemed to […]
Helping Others…
NEIL ANDERSON DAILY DEVOTIONAL from Freedom in Christ Ministries November 4 Helping Others Find Freedom The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, […]
Ministry: Lasting The Distance
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS delivered to TABOR COLLEGE, SYDNEY, FEBRUARY 15, 1999 My fellow students (I hope that includes everyone). First, congratulations to the ‘graduands’ – who’ll become ‘graduates’ when I’ve finished. My text for you, from the New Living Translation of 1 Corinthians 13: ‘… and if you know everything about everything, and have not love, […]
Adapting To Change
NEIL ANDERSON DAILY DEVOTIONAL from Freedom in Christ Ministries I have become all things to all men, that I may be all means save some (1 Corinthians 9:22). The world at the end of the twentieth century is changing at an alarming rate. People are under tremendous stress to keep up with the rapid rate […]
Exhausted?
Read: Exodus 18:13-27 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure. -Exodus 18:23 People who kill time and waste opportunities create problems for themselves. “They’re irresponsible!” we complain. On the other hand, some people encounter problems because they are over-responsible. They say to themselves, “If I […]
Good News / Bad News For A Pastor
Good News: You baptized seven people today in the river. Bad News: Two of them didn’t come up! Good News: The Women’s Guild voted to send you a get-well card. Bad News: The vote passed by 31-30. Good News: The Elder Board accepted your job description the way you wrote it. Bad News: They were […]
Mentors
Read: Acts 20:17-21,31-38 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. -1 Corinthians 11:1 When our daughter Julie was a high school senior, she had the opportunity to “job shadow” for 2 weeks. She went “on the job” to find out firsthand about two professions that had captured her interest. For the first week, she […]
Preaching About Hell
Read: 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 The love of Christ compels us. -2 Corinthians 5:14 Two men were being considered for the pastorate of a certain church. Both preached on the subject of hell. One preached in a cold and threatening way, the other in a compassionate and caring way. The congregation unanimously called the latter as […]
Mentoring
Book Review: John Mallison, Mentoring: to Develop Disciples and Leaders, Scripture Union /Open Book, 1998. John Mallison is well known and respected as one of the Australian Uniting Church’s ‘Elder Statesmen’, and as a promoter of Christian discipleship and growth through small groups. His ‘Growing Christians in Small Groups’ has to be in the ‘Top […]
Life In The Fast Lane
Greg Morris, Director, Greg Morris Ministries Number 249 Do you sometimes feel like the harried circus performer spinning plates in the air? At times our schedules seem to dictate that all our effort is spent running from one responsibility to another, anticipating a “wobble” or trying to maintain the needed momentum. It’s easy to gravitate […]
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