Journey Pastoral Coaching

“You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible.  You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you co […]

INTRODUCTION
At Journey Pastoral Coaching our mission is helping young ministers build strong for a lifetime

of healthy and effective ministry. One of our tools in this mission is research, research […]

I was privileged to serve five years as Campus Pastor at the national Bible College of my denomination.  It was a wonderful season of life and ministry, walking with the most incredible people I have ever known […]

In a recent Journey blog post, we addressed the question, “Which young ministers get the most from walking with a pastoral coach?”  Based on our years in coaching, as well as the expertise of other pastoral coac […]

A CARD COLLECTION & 2 KEYS
Recently, on his Facebook page, a friend, posted a photograph of the many missionary prayer cards he has collected over the years. What a joy it was to see one of our family’s prayer c […]

Pastoral coaching, though it is biblical ministry and central to the ministry and mission of Jesus, is often a new thought for some followers of Christ.  Oddly enough, non-Christians seem to instinctively “get it […]

A LOOK INSIDE THE EMPTY TOMB
To begin, two quotes on the single most important event in history. . .
“Taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident b […]

A Missionary Story of Life & Death “TELL US THE STORY . . . “ As a former missionary, pastor, and now pastoral coach, I have been told countless times, “tell us more of those […]

This is part two in a recent Journey Pastoral Coaching study of young ministers and the stressors that most affect their lives. In our most recent study we looked at external stressors, those stressors coming from […]

Study after study confirms that ministers deal daily with higher than normal levels of stress. Many studies and statistics are available, but consider just the following seven statistics:

 
90% of pastors […]

What I Love About Being a Pastoral Coach I have a confession to make: I am a pastoral coach. And I love it. Many in the church are unfamiliar with pastoral coaching, usually […]

“He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.” Matthew 18.2
2017 was marked by two wonderful Ephesians 3.20-21 blessings of God in my personal life:
My oldest daughter married, and she ma […]

In 2017, as is true every year, we read a number of 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). 2017 was anoth […]

A WEDDING:  WHAT AND WHY
I recently had the honor of walking my daughter down the aisle in her wedding, and of officiating this most wonderful of life events. The couple and I worked together to write their […]

In our previous blog, we began looking at some of Satan’s favorite lies to young ministers – favorite because they’re effective.

Again with the input of Millennial ministers we coach, we offer seven more […]

In his book, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning writes,

“Satan prompts us to give importance to what has no importance. He clothes trivia with glitter and seduces us away from what is real. He causes us t […]

We live in Central Florida. We’re still cleaning up and putting our lives back in order following the visit this past week of Hurricane Irma. You wouldn’t believe the things Irma damaged and destroyed.

A h […]

The English language is ever reinventing itself. Unlike French, a language that seeks to protect itself from change (and for good reason), English is a chameleon, ever changing to reflect its changing […]

Recently, I heard someone say that Christian leaders often “appear out of nowhere.” Like a magician waving a wand, repeating the magic word, “abracadabra,” and pulling rabbits out of a hat, God pulls Christi […]

Two Questions . . .
Studies of the past all too reliably predict that many young ministers of the Gospel gave up this Tuesday, August 1, 2017: They walked away from the ministry. Many of them even walked away […]