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1. 3 Connection Elements Your Local Church Can Focus on to Improve Relationships: We are considering the concept of connectedness as the goal of the local church for every believer (including restored dropout believers). Each local church is painfully aware of the problem of the "back ...; Created on 11 August 2017
2. Mastering the Personal Touch to Your pastoring Style: ... , was struck by how many pastoring conversations resulted. People told me of coming surgeries, coming marriages, even a divorce, etc. I prayed with lots of people. And came away from the phone with th ...; Created on 27 July 2017
3. Cultivating a Shepherd's Heart for Your Flock: Last time we introduced the concept of connectedness as the goal of the local church for every believer (including restored dropout believers). We will look at the three cords of connectedness over the ...; Created on 21 July 2017
4. Churches Often Make These 10 Dangerous Mistakes When Evaluating Pastors: I remember the first time a personnel committee of my church evaluated my ministry and me. I was young, in my early 20s, and I had never had anyone evaluate me to that point. I didn't like being evaluated ...; Created on 17 July 2017
5. Your Most Important Ministry—Are You All In?: ... y and to make a difference for the kingdom of God. While my husband was pastoring important business executives, lonely widows, dysfunctional families and new believers, I was pastoring little people wi ...; Created on 15 June 2017
6. 5 Unreasonable Requests You're Likely to Hear in Your Church: "I need you to do a funeral for my cat." Yes, that is a request made to a pastor by a church member. And here's the stranger reality. I have heard from dozens of pastors who have had this very request. ...; Created on 24 April 2017
7. 20 Bizarre Things Church Members Said to Pastors: It's not a boring vocation. If you serve as a pastor or church staff member, there is rarely a boring moment. A few years ago, I began polling pastors and church staff and collecting some really weird ...; Created on 12 April 2017
8. 10 Tough Lessons Every Pastor Should Remember in Ground-Shaking Trials: ... ch. Their motives may be pure; judging motives is outside my skill set. But pastoring a big church can be the hardest thing you will ever try, and far less satisfying than you would ever think. Small chur ...; Created on 16 February 2017
9. The Mentality That May Be Killing Your Church: "Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest, that He will send out laborers into His harvest' (Matt. 9:37-38). ...; Created on 10 February 2017
10. Leading Yourself Through Difficult and Painful Times: "But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God" (1 Sam. 30:6b). Last year, I snapped out of a six-year battle with grief and depression. There! I said it! My church in general never knew, so it would ...; Created on 26 January 2017
11. 7 of the Most Frustrating Things You May Experience: This post, and the opposite one before it, (7 of the Most Exciting Things Pastors Experience) actually began when I received this question on my blog: "Ron, what do you think are some of the most frustrating ...; Created on 30 December 2016
12. How Your Congregation's Trust in You Can Strengthen in the New Year: The Pew Research Center has found that just over half of Americans trust religious leaders to do what's in their best interest. Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network (APN, americanpastorsnetwork.net), says ...; Created on 28 December 2016
13. A Personal Evaluation That Benefits Your Life and Ministry: It's that time of year again! No, it's not Christmas. It's evaluation time. Since December 1993, I have taken the last week of each year to evaluate my life. When I began this process 23 years ago, I was ...; Created on 27 December 2016
14. Calling a Christmas Truce on Criticism: Are you tired of criticism in your church or home? Perhaps you could take a page out of history and declare a Christmas truce with your biggest critics before you start a new year. On Christmas 1914, a ...; Created on 23 December 2016
15. 7 of the Most Exciting Things Pastors Experience: There are many common factors that get pastors excited about their work. Pastors get to see the best and worst of life, but there are so many positive things we get to experience. Obviously, seeing someone ...; Created on 22 December 2016
16. What I Would Do at Christmastime If I Were a Pastor Again: ... ilies of incarcerated prisoners. I would support the Operation Christmas Child with its shoe boxes. I would never pass a Salvation Army kettle without making a donation. I do this now, but if I were p ...; Created on 20 December 2016
17. How You Can Stop Being a People-Pleasing Pastor: After a post about people pleasing, I received the following email: Ron, Have just finished your blog post "7 Casualties of a People Pleaser in Leadership." I recognize I am a people pleaser pastor. How ...; Created on 12 December 2016
18. 12 Ways to Make Your Ministry Leaner and Smarter: No one local church can do every ministry. The question then becomes which ministries and how many? How do you decide? How many is too many? It's like a local church to continue to add ministries. It is ...; Created on 05 December 2016
19. Why You Must Pastor Your Family Too: If a pastor isn't careful, the success of his ministry could mean the failure of his family. Satan would love to see both fail, but he'll settle for your family. He doesn't have to have either one. It ...; Created on 05 December 2016
20. Embrace These Essential R's to Stay Fresh in Your Ministry: Burnout is easy to accomplish. In fact, it's our default destination when all we do is coast along. I've conversed with tons of pastors who are discouraged. Not one of them predicted it. It always sneaks ...; Created on 21 November 2016

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