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Dec 1, 2022
When we were children, we thoughtfully prepared our Christmas wish lists, some of us even forming them throughout the year. We would ready them to our parents, telling them, “If I could just have these, I wouldn’t ever ask for anything again.” We thought the things that had meaning for us at eight years of […]
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Nov 15, 2022
I remember the moment the call came. I didn’t recognize it at the time, but looking back, I see it now. Just a couple years before, I was spending a day with a great friend, one of the two men who led me to Jesus when we were teens. As we talked, he said, “Alan, […]
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Nov 1, 2022
Late this summer, we asked young ministers to answer two questions: Question 1: What is the greatest joy, in general, you have in vocational ministry? Question 2: From your experience, what is the most difficult part of vocational ministry? Here’s how they responded. QUESTION #1: What is the greatest joy, in general, you have in […]
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Oct 15, 2022
Recently, someone asked me, “You’re a pastor, and you work with pastors, so tell me, where have all the pastors gone?” This person was not referring to pastors who have walked away from ministry but those who serve in pastoral positions but are not pastors in heart – they do not have a pastoral heartbeat. […]
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Sep 15, 2022
Over two hundred fifty feet in the air, standing at the intersection of four 12-inch steel beams, I froze. The sky above me and open space below me, I was completely unable to move. BEAM WALKER What was I doing standing on a 12-inch beam, more than two hundred fifty feet in the air? It […]
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Sep 1, 2022
Every month at Journey Pastoral Coaching, we ask our members to answer our monthly Insight Question. It’s an invaluable resource for me as the Lead Coach at Journey as members, in effect, coach me, helping me understand their world and their insights on the church and world. It’s also one way our members pay to […]
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Sep 1, 2022
Thank you for clicking to read the Part Two of our “This One Thing You Must Do” article: an unpacking of the counsel Journey members would give to those just entering vocational ministry. Once again. . . The Scenario: There is a young man or woman in your circle of influence who is about to […]
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Aug 15, 2022
INTRODUCTION In our previous article, we posted the first half of our 20 must-reads on pastoral ministry. You can read that article here. In this follow-up we look at the second half of our list, again focusing not on the “-ing” of pastoring, but the person, the pastor. These authors write with their attention fixed […]
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Aug 1, 2022
Editor’s Note: In this article, we share with you the first ten books in our look at 20 Must Reads on Pastoring. We invite you to join us in discovering the second half of our list in two weeks. “You’ve got to read this book!” How many times has someone said this to you? My library is […]
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Jul 15, 2022
(EDITOR’S NOTE: During Journey Pastoral Coaching’s 2022 summer break, we’re reposting this article from 2017, a look at five lessons your professors in Bible College or seminary couldn’t teach you – and through no fault of theirs: these are lessons learned only in the trenches of pastoring God’s people. We’ll soon follow up this article […]
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