Les Pensées Archives
Category Archive for "Call"
21Nov 1, 2021
So the pulpit search committee has contacted you, Pastor, and wants to sit down for a formal interview. How do you do to prepare for the meeting? Every pastoral candidate is prepared to answer questions, but are you prepared to ask them? Neglecting this critical aspect of the interview process is a recipe for disaster. […]
22Oct 15, 2021
This is the second of a two-part October series. October is Pastor Appreciation Month, so it seems fitting to celebrate all of the quality ministers who make up this coaching community and make it what it is: the mutual investment ministry that is Journey Pastoral Coaching. Journey Pastoral Coaching is a missional community. We are […]
23Oct 1, 2021
Journey Pastoral Coaching is a missional community. No, we are not a community whose members live and work together in the same locale. But we are definitely a community and we definitely work together in a shared mission. We are missional community doing life and ministry together. Every month at Journey, we ask our members […]
24Aug 15, 2021
“Many pastors confide to me that they are merely surviving. They feel incompetent to do what they are expected to do week after week. . . For many, the thought of thriving in ministry is a distant, unachievable dream. And yet, I know the Lord has called every pastor and ministry leader to experience the […]
25Jun 1, 2021
NOTE: This is an edited version of an article first published March 15, 2019. It’s a part of our Summer Sabbatical Series at journeypastoralcoaching.com. One of my favorite movies is the 2001 classic, “Cast Away,” starring Tom Hanks. Who wouldn’t love a movie where the best friend (or pastoral coach) is a volleyball named Wilson, […]
26May 1, 2021
TAKE MY OWN MEDICINE? NOTE: As we share below, Journey is on summer sabbatical until August 1. We will return at that time with fresh content. Until then, we will post a series of “Best Of” articles from our six plus years of writing. This post on sabbaticals will remain in this place throughout the […]
27Nov 15, 2020
For such a time as this? Even in a dark winter? Recently, a national politician spoke of America living in a “dark winter.” He promised Americans that he was born for such a time as this and is able to lead the nation in this dark time. With the seeming death of virtue in America […]
28Aug 15, 2020
The third and final installment in our three-part look at Timeless Truths for 21st Century Ministers. I often tell young ministers that all ministers take their share of ‘hits” in ministry: from being disappointed by others to being fired; from not being taken care of by a church board to being abused by a church; from non-responsive church […]
29Aug 1, 2020
This article is the second of a three-part series on essential truths for 21st Century ministers. You can read the first installment here. World events, church issues and the ministry itself tempt the minister to focus first on the ever urgent and always must-be-done now list. For others, attention and energy are spent one breath at a […]
30May 15, 2020
Some silver lining on this dark cloud called COVID-19. A long-standing prayer of mine may be in the process of being answered: the return of Psalm 23 pastors to the church of Jesus. Call them “undershepherds” of the Great Good Shepherd of John 10. TECHNIQUE-BASED PASTORS: Members of Journey Pastoral Coaching know that I am no […]
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