A couple of months ago, I contacted a friend about meeting up for lunch. I apologized for it having been so long since when we last connected. He responded by saying, “No issue. We are all busy.” And it’s true. Think about it for a moment. When we ask coworkers ...
Pastor Charles Stone offers a few encouraging quotes and Bible verses on the powerful effect of slowing down the busyness of your life through silence and solitude. ...
…Don’t forget why you’re in ministry. It was a calling. You had a passion to serve. You love people. You wanted to make a Kingdom difference. You wanted to be a disciple-maker. It’s so easy to get distracted with seemingly good things. You get bogged down in committ ...
As a youth pastor, you have faced numerous seasons of conflicting priorities at least a few times in your ministry: That message that needs to be prepared is looming. Not to mention, your prayer life feels like it is nonexistent. The busyness of ministry and life begin to crowd out ...
from the archives: There is no escaping it, pastors and ministry leaders are busy people. And although much of that busyness may be justified - a leader must guard themselves from becoming burned out. Here are 10 Ways to Create Margin In Your Life 1) Use all of your ...
Tresta Payne shares her discouragement with the busyness of parenting, work, and life itself, but offers encouragement that God is with us through it all, asking us to "walk worthy" with the time we've been given. ...
Christmas is upon us. Visions of shopping, Christmas trees, and baking cookies for friends and neighbors swirl in our head. The busyness of it all is enough to make even Job take a pause. And with the Christmas season comes gifts. But today I'm thinking of different gifts. Three ...
In the busyness of the Christmas season, I'll be reposting some of my favorite posts and scaling back my original content. I'm focusing on Christmas this week and will post a best-of 2012 next week after Christmas. This particular post was published back in 2010.While we're on the sub ...
In the busyness of the Christmas season, I'll be reposting some of my favorite posts and scaling back my original content. I'm focusing on Christmas this week and will post a best-of 2012 next week after Christmas. This particular post was published last year following my kids' Christmas p ...
In the busyness of the Christmas season, I'll be reposting some of my favorite posts and scaling back my original content. I'm focusing on Christmas this week and will post a best-of 2012 next week after Christmas. This particular post was first published in December 2009 (and I'm very gra ...