Part Four – Staying Heart Healthy
Think of your emotional life as a tree planted in the heart. You can hang ornaments on a dead tree, but only a living tree can produce fruits. A healthy emotional life is rooted in and grows out of a healthy heart.
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Part Three – A Beautiful Mind
Frederick Buechner said, “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Perhaps this is an appropriate note on which to begin 2021?
Part Two – A Healthy “Soul”
What if rather than make resolutions for 2021, we grew in our resolve to be more loving humans in every dimension of our being and relationships?
Entry 4: Priesthood of all Believers
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out …
“Pastors Should Not Get Political” and Other Un-Christian Clichés
Series: The Un-Christian Clichés That Christians Say I’m kicking off a couple reflections on the false and un-Christian clichés that Christians throw around. I’ll start with one I’m hearing a …
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Entry 3: Team-Based Ministry
“But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, ‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he …
Entry 2: Shared Leadership
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord …
Entry 1: The Seeds of the Churches Renewal
The seeds of the Churches’ renewal are hidden in the soils of local congregations. Recently United Methodists of Florida held our annual conference (the yearly gathering of clergy and laity …
How Institutions Can Avoid Exiling and Domesticating Pioneers
In my last post I described the psychology of pioneers. Here I want to visit how pioneers’ function within their social ecosystems, or a sociology of pioneering. I’m doing …
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Getting to Know Me
Can even the cursed branches of a family tree bear fruit? Or even branches that have been broken off, can they be grafted into the life source again? Parentless children …