Midwives Of The Holy Spirit #2 The ideas for this series of posts have grown out of a training seminar Mike teaches called Power With A Purpose. If you’re interested in finding out more about it drop him a line at [email protected] I grew up Catholic. When...
The ideas for this series of posts have grown out of a training seminar Mike teaches called Power With A Purpose. If you’re interested in finding out more about it drop him a line at [email protected] Don't Throw Out The Baby With The Bathwater I’ve been around...
How have I managed to last in the ministry? I’ve saved the most important thing for last… I’ve been able to keep going in the ministry by keeping my priorities straight. The ministry has a way of messing-up priorities. You figure that because it’s God’s business,...
Being A Good Team Player I’ve already written on how important having friends are to lasting in the ministry in a previous post. Their personal support is invaluable. But having friends doesn’t necessarily mean you can work well with others. Some leaders may be good at...
Keeping Humble When I think about how I’ve been able to do well and last in the ministry I inevitably have to talk about humility. Of all the unnatural but necessary virtues that the Spirit has been hard at work developing in me, humility has been...
Friends When it comes to lasting in the ministry there are some things only God can do like spiritual gifting and other things only we can do, like developing good close friendships. An ironic thing about the ministry is that even though it’s a people business...
I’m often asked how I’ve managed to last in the ministry? My cursory answer is something like, “Fortunate and very blessed I guess.” But really there’s more to it and that’s what I want to share about in this series of posts Keeping It Real I don’t...
My favorite painting is by Winslow Homer. It’s called “Veteran in a New Field” and it depicts a Union soldier just returning to his farm from the Civil War. Homer painted it just a few months after the war ended. Hundreds of thousands of men...
There are certain essentials in life that are foundational and enduring. I call them the main and the plain things. For instance the main and plain of physical health are diet, exercise and rest. The main and plain of mental health are love, community and...
I’ve been in the ministry for forty-two years: seven with Teen Challenge and thirty-five pastoring in NYC. That’s quite an achievement considering how dangerous the ministry is. It’s perhaps the single most stressful and frustrating working profession, more than medical doctors, lawyers, politicians or cat...