Early in our marriage, while serving at a church plant, I was raising three small children, caring for my mother and grandmother, homeschooling, a leader in women’s ministry, and hosting a small group in our home. My capacity was limited and I had no idea how to juggle all those relationships and responsibilities. I kept…
Protect Your Family Time During the Busy Christmas Season in Ministry
Our 35 years in pastoral ministry (all at one church, in a suburb north of Boston) spanned all our child-rearing…
Find Joy and Stay Connected During Advent as a Pastor’s Family
By Jere & Brenda Vincent, Family Builders Ministry The Advent season is often one of the busiest and most demanding times…
Alpha as a Leadership Development Tool
One of the oddest incidents in the Book of Exodus occurs when Moses’ father-in-law Jethro visits him in the Sinai…
Conflict in Ministry Marriage: Challenging Your Husband with Respect
Letting a fallen sinner lead is always difficult – and sometimes no easier when he’s your husband AND the pastor…
Alpha as a Way to Build Community
In the two previous installments of this series on Alpha ministry in the local church, I’ve looked at Alpha as…
Alpha as a Discipleship Tool
Jesus’ model of discipleship involved both teaching and on-the-job training in ministry. The content of his teaching centered on the…
Alpha Can Help Revitalize Your Church
I’m not sure I could overstate how much Alpha has impacted the revitalization of our church. In the more than…
A Pastor’s Relationship to his Children
“You always put the church ahead of us!” Those were the angry words hurled at our friend by his adult…
A Pastor’s Relationship with Self
You are on a plane taxiing for takeoff; the flight attendant takes the microphone and makes the familiar announcement: “In…
A Pastor’s Relationship with his Wife: The Make-or-Break Relationship
In the introduction to his classic work A Handbook to Marriage, Theodore Bovet states, “Today for most people the man-woman…
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