To reach out to others, your own heart and soul should be healthy. Consider 5 key indicators.
You feel deep emotion. A healthy heart feels emotions deeply. It can be touched by joy, pain, anger, gratitude, and love. This past Easter we prepared an original musical, "Jairus." There were 11 performances, and believers in our congregation invited scores of their seeking friends. The musical exceeded our ...
Crisis Situations All pastors live squarely on a fault line. The question is not if a crisis will come but when. Even though I can’t schedule them, I can learn to be prepared. Gary Gulbranson
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The day I candidated at Glen Ellyn Bible Church, following the Sunday morning service, we were having lunch at the home of the chairman of the board of elders.
Suddenly, in the middle of the meal, the phone rang. When our host returned, his face was pale.
He quickly gave us the facts: the son of one of the church families, a college-age man who had attended church that morning, had left the service ...
I spent much of September 2005 calling ever-busy phone numbers, e-mailing friends who might have heard from other mutual friends, and searching the Internet for aerial photographs of my old neighborhood. Was my former church still standing? My seminary? My friends' homes?
I lived in New Orleans nine years as a seminary student and a pastor. In that time, the grimy gumbo of cultures became my home. ...
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