Shared Journey: The Power of Peer Mentorship Part I
At Journey Pastoral Coaching, we help young ministers build for a lifetime of healthy and effective ministry. We do so by focusing on the individual him or herself. The doing of ministry flows from the being of the minister, the two are inescapably one. What the minister gives of God to others flows from what he is experiencing in his own relationship with Jesus, from what He is receiving from God. Jesus spoke often of...
Guest Blog: Thoughts On Being Bi-Vocational
Editor's Note: Are you a bi-vocational minister? In his most recent letter to ministers, Assemblies of God General Superintendent George Wood said that 38% of AG ministers fit this description. A question: are you a BVM because you have no choice or because it is your choice? Journey Member, Pastor Chase Replogle of Ozark, MO writes a very encouraging piece on just this question. Enjoy. This summer will be our fifth anniversary of...
The Primary Tools of Pastoral Coaching
While pastoral coaching is first and foremost a relationship, it does make use of carefully selected tools, not tools that serve the convenience of the coach, but that serve the well being of the one being coached. While these tools are many and varied, there are three that set in first position on the coach’s tool belt. Before we look at those three tools, let us first examine why these tools are so important. In...
Journey’s Most Popular Blog Posts in 2016
In 2016, Journey published 32 blogs, one every two weeks of the year, plus a few extras thrown in for good measure. While most of our writing focused on the pastoral coaching issues, we also looked at the nature of God, the church, great books, and, this past summer, even our favorite European vacation spots (the result of our many years living and serving in ministry in Europe). Of our thirty-two, here’s the short list,...
My Christmas Wish List for Pastors
I am a pastoral coach: I have the joy of pastoring pastors every day. Millennial pastors primarily. Pastors across America and in foreign nations. Pastors of all kinds: lead pastors, church planters, staff pastors, special needs pastors, missionary pastors, and even a couple of pastors-of-pastors. I love what I am called to do with my life because I love pastors and, I love – and greatly respect – each and every one of the pastors...
A Pastor’s Christmas Wish List
Every minister breathes silent prayers at Christmas. He lifts “wishes” to heaven. In quiet moments of reflection he reaches into his heart and draws out the dreams he would dream if only he believed they really could come true. Here is such a list of dreams. Prayers. Christmas wishes. Each and every one of them is being wished by ministers this Christmas. I know this to be true because this list has been compiled with...
Best Reads of 2016
In 2016 we read many good books, a few great books, and a couple of “why was this ever published” books (no, you won't find books of the last category in this list). Overall, it was a great reading year with many happy hours invested in my study or outside on the deck with the essential "Big Three": good music, good coffee and a good book. As the year ends, we offer you our list...
Thankful 2016
God of Heaven, What do I have that I did not receive from you? (I Corinthians 4.7) Because you are the giver of every good and perfect gift (James 1.17) and because you are good, I give you thanks; truly your lovingkindness to me and to all people is everlasting (Psalm 118.1). The 16th Century English writer, Izaak Walton wrote, “God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful...
Re4mation 2.1
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the local church in Wittenberg, Germany, 95 reforms he believed necessary to revitalize the universal church and restore Jesus to His rightful place as Savior and Lord in church doctrine and life. In effect, Luther grabbed the church by the throat & shook it with its own need of God. That the church convulsed against Luther’s attempt at life saving is true....© [2015] — Journey Pastoral Coaching