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7 Ways Pastors Stress Out Staff

7 Senior Pastor stress inducing phrases “We’ll figure it out” Translation: I come up with ideas and you figure out how to execute them. I can’t be bogged down with the details. “Its a possibility” Translation: There is no way in heck we’re going to do that, but I don’t like to say no. So instead you keep thinking its a possibility and I’ll keep dreaming up new ideas for you to work on. “That’s a g... »

9 Ways to Raise Your Spiritual Temperature

I’m not a cold-weather guy. I live in central Florida, a land of flip-flops, shorts and water parks that stay open 365 days a year. Our average temperature in Orlando in January is 71 degrees. In the summer, a humid 95 is fine with me. But I have friends in Minneapolis, Rochester, Philadelphia and Baltimore who endured the “polar vortex” of 2014. We haven’t seen temperatures like that in more than... »