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  • Reset 22. Just a Little Bit Longer

    Reset 22. Just a Little Bit Longer
    2025/09/01
    This is the second of three resets from the fall of 2021 exploring the question of when a pastor might want or need to leave his church. A part of that question is why we stay? Why do we hang around doing a job that is admittedly hard with people who can be inexplicably difficult? […]
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    7 分
  • Reset 21. Oh, Won’t You Stay?

    Reset 21. Oh, Won’t You Stay?
    2025/08/25
    Something that is rarely discussed, it seems to me, is when pastors should leave a church. Rarely discussed, of course, does not mean rarely thought about. I’m an advocate of long pastorates in single places. But not every place is suited for that. There may come a time when it’s time for a pastor to […]
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    8 分
  • RDC1A. The Power of Pastors’ Wives, Part One

    RDC1A. The Power of Pastors’ Wives, Part One
    2025/08/18
    Hello, everyone. Welcome to another Greatheart’s Table Conversation for Rainy Day People, which is actually a reprise of our original conversation first posted in September of 2024. In this conversation I speak with three women with a wealth of ministry experience to discuss the unique challenges and joys of serving as the spouse of a […]
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    32 分
  • 138. Where Nice Guys Finish

    138. Where Nice Guys Finish
    2025/08/11
    This episode invites us to consider the leadership models we as pastors, but as those filling any role, really, adopt and promote. Authoritarian leadership styles seem to be sweeping the world by storm, and these are trends which pastors particularly must stand against. Why? Because if we are followers of Jesus, he, not the demands […]
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    8 分
  • 137. Parenting as Improv

    137. Parenting as Improv
    2025/08/04
    This is the third of three episodes drawn from the content of the retreat I offer for parents of off-script kids, the adult children of Christian parents who have made life choices troubling to their parents. In the retreat I help parents unlearn the toxic teaching which has loaded great guilt upon them, and I […]
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    8 分
  • 136. Truth, Lies, and the Pulpit

    136. Truth, Lies, and the Pulpit
    2025/07/28
    Those who know me know how skeptical I am about the use of statistics by pastors, and how much I mistrust a certain oft-quoted polling organization based in California. But my concern is not statistics per se, but the fact that if we are not careful the pulpit, instead of being a place of truth, […]
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    8 分
  • RDC 4B. Healthy Teams and Pastoral Flourishing, Part Two

    RDC 4B. Healthy Teams and Pastoral Flourishing, Part Two
    2025/07/21
    As many know, on the first, second, and third Mondays of each month I reproduce here an audio version of my Substack newsletter, for those who prefer their content in audio form. But on the third and fifth Mondays I release audio only conversations with others who have insight into concerns relevant to pastors. This […]
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    37 分
  • Reset 20. Uncommon Sources of Sermonic Wisdom

    Reset 20. Uncommon Sources of Sermonic Wisdom
    2025/07/14
    I love good children’s books. This is so well known, that a 9 year old member of our church recently took great joy in giving me Volume 1 of a collection of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books. She was beaming, and so was I. Books like these ought to be read for the sheer […]
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    8 分