We are living in a time of severe turbulence all across our world. We see it every day in the world of politics.

Why don’t we change? Why is that area the same with no growth or development? The shade is keeping the light from shining on us.

As one who deals with pastors and leaders, I often see and hear about disabled churches.

I have discovered some valuable lessons about faith and ministry and from the links of the golf course.

How do we respond when we come to the place where life is not working?

We had our largest pipeline cut off for days. The energy we needed could not get through to our gas stations.

We have been dealing with a major world-wide crisis for over a year. 2020 was a year we would like to forget.

How do we avoid the place of isolation? We invite significant others into our world. We were never meant to be isolated in ministry.

We are coming off a year of Ministry Madness. We have all dealt with the reality of life events beyond our control.

It would be great if we could take a vaccine to protect us from all that threatens us in the ministry.

If 2020 was a year of the unexpected, then 2021 has begun the same way.

We avoid the blame game when we take responsibility for our life and actions we have taken.

Most of us in ministry are feeling the heavy burden of leading our churches in this pandemic.

I’ve been in ministry long enough to view success differently than when I started off in 1982 as a first- time pastor. When I attended...

I have been a pastor for 39 years, and I have never seen anything like this in my life.

Church leadership is not immune to the struggle for control.

We have all grown very familiar with the term “social distancing.” This is one of three main ways we are to guard ourselves from the...

I remind myself as a pastor that Jesus did not come to take sides, but to take over all of life.

We have a section in our material at Still Waters Renewal that deals with Church Bullies.

We all understand what it feels like to be discouraged in ministry.