Thrive In 5- Hearing God – A Way of Life (Part 2)
Hearing God isn’t just about receiving guidance, but rather about entering into a lifelong, interactive relationship of communication, intimacy, and living our whole life in the will of God.
Education & Clergy Development
Thrive In 5: Physical – When Being Too Sweet Is Bad
The demand on clergy is taxing. Ministry often demands more than pastors feel they can give. Add in bi-vocational, family needs, and a pandemic, it is easy to understand why a pastor’s personal health suffers.
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – Re-Discovering A Pre-Modern Paradigm
As pastoral leaders in an age of upheaval, the guidance we seek from the Bible will elude us if we exclusively rely on modern or postmodern paradigms
Thrive In 5-The Motivational (Emotional)
As a pastor, If you have discovered that your motivation has taken a vacation and left you behind, you are not alone.
Thrive In 5-Five P’s for Joyful Giving (Financial)
The Bible tells us that God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7), but too often giving feels like an obligation–this can be just as true for pastors as for lay people.
Thrive In 5-Co-Regulation (Relational)
“Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” –Jesus, John 14:27
Thrive In 5- Hearing God – A Way of Life (Part 1)
In our current cultural climate, there are so many voices vying for our attention. It’s hard to know who to trust.
Thrive In 5-Thrive in 5 Covid-19 Vaccine Facts
A timely look at some of the latest facts related to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – Balancing Preaching Series For 2021
The beginning of a New Year is an ideal time to establish a preaching plan.
Thrive In 5-The Practice of Emotional Wellness (Emotional)
How would you rate your emotional wellness?
Thrive In 5-Saving for Short- and Long-Term Goals (Financial)
Saving for short and long-term goals is most likely going to be a part of every pastor’s financial planning
Thrive In 5-Commitment (Relational)
Commitment is an essential quality of long-term relationships.
Thrive In 5-Be Still and Know
Be still and listen to the voice of your heavenly Father who loves you, who cares for you, and who knows your needs.
Thrive In 5-Vacations and Your Health
…now is a good time to be intentional and plan for strategic days off leading up to the holidays and then for an extended time away from ministry-work sometime in the new year.
Thriving Clergy: Pastorwell
“Sometimes pastors don’t avail themselves of things until there is a crisis; we’re trying to encourage pastors to be thinking ahead about what kinds of habits of mind and heart they can begin to make part of their life before there’s a crisis,”
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – Corralling Conspiracy Theories
“How can a pastor best lead during a time when we are awash in conspiracy theories that people often promote?”
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Feeling Safe
Since March 2020 the world in which we live feels like a dangerous place. For some of us, that sense of danger is actually real. For others of us, the sense of danger is more in our nonconscious perception of threat.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – Lectio Divina (Devotional Reading)
Lectio Divina is one way you can read Scripture to abide in God’s presence and to experience his living Word for you today.
Thrive in 5: Financial – Overarching Biblical Themes on Money and Possessions
The Bible contains more verses on money and possessions than nearly any other topic. Howard Dayton teaches that there are over 2,300 such verses.
Thrive In 5: Relational – Trust and Trustworthiness
Trust and trustworthiness are essential qualities of relationships that last a lifetime.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – With God in Suffering and Weakness
During this time of Covid-19, we feel it is vitally important for pastors to continue to learn to carve out a few moments each day to simply be with God in prayer.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – The Nature, Necessity, and Practice of Solitude and Silence
Jesus needed it. So did Moses, Elijah, Mary, and Paul. And that is just for starters. All the leading Fathers and Mothers throughout church history needed it, too. People like Augustine, Luther, Wesley, Calvin, and modern spiritual leaders such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer,...
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – Have You Experienced the Love of God?
The one thing that is everything is friendship with God in Christ..
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – When Experts Collide
The post-modern west has entered a very shaky phase when it comes to our consideration of experts.
