Part One: Stress and Anxiety Often times we think of living on this earth as just passing time before we go to heaven. Christians are notorious for holding up signs telling people to turn to Jesus or they were burn in eternal hell. I’m not saying this isn’t true, but it is certainly NOT the [...]

Now and then you read a book that meets you with perfect timing. Crazy Love by Francis Chan was that book for me. How to best know that Tyler really likes a book? He does more than one post on it. I heard Francis speak at the Willow Arts Conference in June. I had 3 [...]

Somehow summer has ran me over and then kept going. I’m exhausted. My body is just tired. Why I am exhausted is interesting to think about in light of my post on ministry burnout earlier this week. I can’t pinpoint why I’m totally spent though. I’ve been on the stage on Sunday morning 12 of [...]

On Sunday the song “When the Tears Fall” set up Barb’s message on being a community of authenticity for those in pain. This is a song that I have loved ever since Tim Hughes wrote it, a song that has ministered to me in deep ways many, many times. I am lucky I was able [...]

I read Anne Jackson’s blog almost everyday. She is one of those “big-time” bloggers and she has a book coming out next February called Mad Church Disease. The book is basically about the disease of church leaders getting burned out. Talk to anyone in ministry and they know burnout is an issue to be dealt [...]

Today we started a 3 week series on hurt, pain, sorrow, etc…why is life so hard? It was an awesome day at church. One of those days when you are so thankful for what you do. I came home at 2:30 only to read about a church in Tennessee that is dealing with indescribable amounts [...]