My Experience With Anxiety and How You Can Help Your Pastor
The first time I had an anxiety attack I didn’t know what was happening. It was about ten minutes into my sermon when I…
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Shame and Sexual Addiction
It starts with a single picture . . . a single sexual image that pops onto the computer screen . . . and before…
The Top 10 Challenges to Being an Emotionally Healthy Leader
I have been thinking and writing about the qualities of emotionally healthy leadership since 1996. Each book (e.g., The Emotionally Healthy Leader) and theme in The…
The Lonely Pastor and 6 Ways to Dig Out
Loneliness is a deep ache in our soul and it doesn’t necessarily imply that we are physically alone. Some of the loneliest people in…
How to Dig out of Leadership Burnout
From time to time every leader and pastor face burnout. The well runs dry. He or she becomes weary in well doing. He runs out…
Senior Pastor: Are You Driving Your Staff Crazy?
I heard it again today: “Only senior pastors can understand the incredible pressure a senior pastor is under.” I have no reason to doubt…
When Faith Fades & Pastors Stop Believing
There seems to be a growing number of, or at least a growing amount of attention toward, clergy who have stepped away from their…
There’s Another Reason Why Many Pastors Leave the Ministry
In a previous article, Bo Lane, founder of ExPastors.com, wrote eloquently on why so many pastors leave the clergy today. Between 1,500 and 2,000…
Why Do So Many Pastors Leave the Ministry? The Facts Will Shock You
A few years after I had left the ministry, a co-worker came and asked if I wouldn’t mind talking and praying for her friend…