Bizarre Book Cover Help

I have a little stocking-suffer book scheduled to come out through Heritage Builders this Fall, for Christmas. What do you think of the proposed cover? I especially loved the bug, scientist, and Mary making diapers out of underwear. Hopefully that won't offend too many.... Any suggestions? Anything you love? loathe? Of course, without reading the …

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Groan

Read through without groaning. I can’t. I was wondering, why would a single, white gal from the states move to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? It’s dangerous. It’s hot. It stinks. You take one-step off the plane and you groan. That’s the reason. In Mk 7:31-37 Jesus is moved by a mans suffering, …

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Does Youth Ministry Matter?

I started youth ministry at Camp Peniel. From there I went to church ministry. I still remember wondering what I had gotten into when someone in my first church gave me an article on the horrors of listening to Amy Grant. Where do you go with that? Fairly early on in church ministry I met …

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Pastoral Envy

I had this published four years ago in Christianity Today - Leadership Journal. I think it's been long enough they are good with me putting it on my blog. DEAR GOD, GIVE ME A MEGA-MINISTRY WHEN I BURN OUT It isn’t fair. Bill Hybels burnt out. He wrote, “The rate at which I was doing …

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Surrender, Yes. Sacrifice, No

The older I get in ministry, the less work it is, and the more of a privilege it becomes. I remember my biggest dread when I started church ministry in 1985. Hospital visits. That’s partly because on my first visit I walked into the wrong room. And, I still have to keep my eyes off …

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