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1Apr 15, 2024
I am a collector of quotes. As I read a book, I note significant passages and add them to my collection. At present, I have approximately 20,000 quotes on my computer (yes, backed up!), the fruit of more than forty years of reading, all filed by subject. One of the largest sets of quotes in […]
2Jun 15, 2023
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hannah Horst serves as a US missionary and Orphan Care Chaplain with the Assemblies of God. You and your church can support this vital ministry as Hannah works to mobilize the church in ministering to these children at risk – simply click on the link to learn more or donate to her ministry: […]
3Jul 1, 2022
(EDITOR’S NOTE: During Journey Pastoral Coaching’s 2022 summer break, we’re reposting this article from 2019, a look at a spiritual discipline we practice together at Journey. It’s a shared spiritual discipline that has not only become one of our most anticipated activities, but is now being used by Journey members in leading their ministries. It […]
4Nov 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. […]
5Oct 27, 2020
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is a difficult one to publish. Even painful. For it is written by my daughter, Allison Luna, and it tells the story of the most devastating experience of her life, an experience that devastated us as a family, those who love her. Allison does not tell her story to draw attention […]
6Oct 1, 2020
While attending university the first time, I worked as a customer service representative for one of the country’s best-known package delivery services. My duties included not only working with the public, but with fellow employees who loaded our center’s delivery trucks for the day’s deliveries. Even before dawn, it was a lively workplace. Several of […]
7Sep 15, 2020
In our previous article, we began answering the question, “Pastor or Leader?” Should the role of the person who directs a local church be that of a pastor or a leader? Is this person’s function best defined by leadership or pastoral principles? We pointed out that this choice of “either-or” is a bit too limiting. […]
8Sep 1, 2020
A frequent conversation in the study and practice of pastoral ministry is “Leader or Pastor?” Should the role of the person who directs a local church be that of a leader or a pastor? Is this person’s function best defined by leadership or pastoral principles? This article is the first in a two-part series that […]
9Apr 15, 2020
As a pastoral coach, I spend countless hours in conversation with our ministry’s target group, young ministers. It’s who we are; it’s what we do. And it’s a joy. These conversations are focused on helping our members in their ministry lives. Through regularly scheduled and special phone calls, I join their journeys and help them […]
10Feb 29, 2020
INTRODUCTION One year ago this month, Journey Pastoral Coaching published an article entitled, “The World Will End in 23 Years (The Church World).” In that piece, I cited statistics on the graying of the American pulpit. How gray are we going? This gray: “By the time your son or daughter, born today, graduates from college, the average […]
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