Creating a Balanced Pastor’s Life
A Pastor has around-the-clock duties that pull you in a lot of directions. You feel like a yo-yo. Your life is out of balance with demands from your congregation, church duties, and family. There are ways to create and maintain a balanced life as a Pastor.
Stress Management for a PastorStress can impact your mental and physical health. It is unavoidable in everyday life. Responded to stress in a positive way can move you forward or in a new direction. If you react negatively to stress, it can create anxiety, fear, distrust, and cause you to stay stuck or make a decision that will cause you not to perform to your full potential. You find you have frequent headaches, insomnia, stomachaches, or high blood pressure. There are ways to dealing with stress in a positive way.
There’s a lot of talk out there about grace. But just what is it as applied to our life today? Here’s some lessons in faith about how to have an abundant life right now.
Practical Spirituality-The Third ForceIn our previous two articles on the Four Forces we talked about interactions on the horizontal plain, or axis. We talked about centripetal force pulling one inward, into the inner world. We also talked about centrifugal force pulling one outward to the external world and social interactions. When one was successfully alternating between each of these forces one would be moving on the horizontal axis in a figure eight. One would loop from the inside to the outside several times passing through the center, the place of balance. Healthy need would draw one outside of oneself. Healthy fear would draw one back inside the self. One would move back and forth on this horizontal plane, the physical plane of existence, until one experienced another feeling knows as guilt.
Having Done All To Stand – Your Are Stronger Than You Think! – Being An OvercomerThere are people that are paying a great price every day to worship God the way they choose. We should not take our freedom to worship lightly in the United States. More so, we should take advantage of this freedom.
He Speaks In A WhisperHe speaks to us in a whisper. Acknowledging the game of life helps us to understand how to win. Knowing the Spiritual dimension of our world is to have knowledge, while living in this world like everyone else is to be simple minded.
God makes his mercy available to men through covenants. Man must come to God based on a covenant agreement in order to receive mercy. Notice Deuteronomy 7:9-11, “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God which keepth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations and repayeth them that hate him to there face to destory them, he will repay and not be slack to him that hateth Him. God would much rather shed His mercy on people than His wrath according to James 2:13, “Mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”
Spirituality and SymbolsIt appears that every belief has symbols attached to it and it seems the human mind likes to use symbols, almost as Nations like to use Flags, animals and symbols to describe their domain; for instance a National Bird or a National Flag is very common. In religion and spirituality symbols are also used quite a bit.
Effective Problem Solving for PastorsA minister’s day is filled with problems, and they are usually other people’s problems. Your main duty during the day seems to be problem solver. How can you do this and remove yourself from being the answer person. The following are steps to help you be a facilitator of solutions and not be “the problem solver”.
Genie In A BottleA brief description of what it is like to be living in a world of infinite possibilities.
What Faith Is And How It Is To Be Used – Great Rewards Are To ComeBy faith we stand against evil both inwardly and outwardly. We stand inwardly against personal sin. We stand outwardly in opposition against the evil of this world. However, we must stand in all meekness and gentleness of Christ and not with a condemning attitude.
The Prayer of Pure Instinct – HELP!Now I know for myself, I am secretly wishing for help more often then I care to admit. There is no kind of help that is harder for the Divine to deliver then any other. If you pray for help when your child is sick it’s on the way. If you pray for help when your computer freezes up it’s on the way. If you pray for help when your car breaks down on the freeway it’s on the way. If you pray for help finding a parking spot at the mall, you guessed it, it’s on the way!



