A Company of Pastors offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in the lives of religious leaders. The book offers a two-year framework for a clergy support group among pastors. It invites them to practice fun, food, and fellowship as a prophetic witness against all the pressures that seek to set them one against another. It invites clergy to rediscover the support of the beloved community as an antidote to the toxic isolation so frequent among clergy. Do you ever wonder why being a pastor is such a lonely calling? Numerous people surround the pastor many...
A Company of Pastors offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in the lives of religious leaders. The book offe...
GO LAUGHS-WHY DON'T YOU? introducing the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of ministry. Ministry is not easy. In addition to administrating a complex voluntary society and weekly seeking to challenge and inspire them, clergy Drink in the pain and stresses of their church and the society Absorb the pain of those who come for support and Absorb the criticism of the disappointed The cost to their bodies and emotions is cumulative unless they find a healing response. "God Laughs-Why Don't You?" introduces the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of...
GO LAUGHS-WHY DON'T YOU? introducing the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of ministry. Ministry is not easy. In addition to adm...
An Interim's Gift to a Congregation Every church experiences a time when the previous pastor leaves and the congregation confronts the challenge of finding a new pastor for their church. The time of transition that begins when the former pastor is no longer present and the new pastor has not yet arrived is often a time of uncertainty. Regardless of whether the experience with the previous pastor was positive or negative, congregations feel like they are treading water waiting for their next spiritual leader. Seeking a new pastor can both be a time of anxiety and hope. In recent times, many...
An Interim's Gift to a Congregation Every church experiences a time when the previous pastor leaves and the congregation confronts the challenge of fi...
Ministers are strong and weak, faithful and faithless, as are the members of their congregations. The miracle of the church is not in our faithfulness but in God's faithfulness. We are witnesses to how our confused reality keeps being interrupted by grace. This collection of clergy tales tell the stories of clergy in both their noble light and their shadows. At its most boring, there is something special about the ministry and frequently it is a full-time, hair-raising adventure that is anything but boring. This book seeks to provide parabolic stories of the complexity of ministry. It is an...
Ministers are strong and weak, faithful and faithless, as are the members of their congregations. The miracle of the church is not in our faithfulness...
Frank Sessions, pastor of John Knox Church in Lincoln, North Carolina, is halfway through his sermon when he sees a teenager rise from his pew a third of the way back in the sanctuary. Before Frank can process what is happening, the youth calls out his name, shouts that it is all a lie, and begins shooting people around him. Within two weeks, a teenage girl shoots up another church. Both willingly die in the process. Later it happens in Wisconsin, then Texas, and beyond. Soon the whole nation lives in fear that a church near them will be next. It is always a teenager with some version of the...
Frank Sessions, pastor of John Knox Church in Lincoln, North Carolina, is halfway through his sermon when he sees a teenager rise from his pew a third...
