Thrive In 5-Commitment (Relational)
Commitment is an essential quality of long-term relationships.
Education & Clergy Development
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: Physical – Maintaining a Healthy Brain
Consider the importance of maintaining good brain health as you serve God and others in your role as a pastor
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.
Southern Wesleyan Faculty Spotlight: Mark Wilson
“A pastor cleverly disguised as a professor.” That’s how Rev. Mark Wilson refers to himself.
Pastors’ Spotlight- Jorge Escalante
The hyphen: integrating the immigrant into ministry
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Ambiguous Loss
The COVID-19 virus has changed the way we “do life” and “do church” so that we are simultaneously absent and present.
Thrive Financial Spotlight: Amon Chidongwe
As Pastor Amon works through TFI’s first year, he will receive (from the grant) a match of up to $1,000 of what Horizons church has invested in him. In addition, TFI will match another $1,000 from another source that elected to invest in…
Thrive in 5: Financial – Choosing the Kingdom Path
Gary Hoag, Scott Rodin and Wesley Willmer challenge churches and ministries to recalculate the route for Christ-centered ministry by examining the presuppositions that drive decision-making and vision casting.
Thrive In 5: Relational- Creating Shared Meaning
Relationships that last.
Thrive In 5: Spiritual – Contemplative Prayer: Palms Down, Palms Up
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 Financial Spotlight: Jason Parker
Now, nearing the end of the TFI process, the Parker family have worked toward the Thrive team’s collective goals, paying down all $20,000 in debt, and are completely debt-free as they now work on the next step (building their savings fund).
Thrive in 5: Physical- A Theological Perspective on Essence & Performance
A Theological Perspective on Essence & Performance In today’s world, some would argue that our human value is based upon function or performance. For example, assertions are made that the unborn child developing in her mother’s womb is not truly human or...
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – Time for A Missional Reset
Time for A Missional Reset
