Reflecting on a Year of Leadership Mistakes and Forgiveness
In a difficult ministry season, we could all use some grace and forgiveness.
Tag: Kurt Bubna
The Uncomfortable Truth About Resilience
As a rule, we would rather take the path of least resistance, but it truly is the narrow and difficult way that leads to life.
Do You Know What Refreshes, Refuels and Restores You?
Are you intentional about rest and recovery?
God’s Love for the Broken
God delights in choosing rejects and rubble and rubbish.
Love When It’s Hard to Love
Where the strength comes from to love when we are wronged
We Need a Better Way to Define Success
Have we been reaching for the wrong things?
What Will Renewal and Revival Require?
As a leader and pastor, there are some tough questions I face every day. Actually, they’re more in my face than Id like. What do you do when the “new normal” seems very abnormal? How do you move forward when you are awfully unsure who is moving with you? When did fear and frustration become the forces that control so many lives? This article explores what is needed for church renewal and revival.
5 Practices to Get You Through the Pandemic
Have you ever felt like you’re on the backside of the desert or in some twisted form of an apocalyptic wasteland? Do you feel a bit isolated and irritated in your struggle with the COVID dilemma? Of course, you’re pretty sure God hasn’t abandoned you or moved out of your reach. But … You feel … Continued
What to Do When Friends Leave Your Church
Recently, I had two painful experiences with friends. One is leaving our church because I am too conservative on an issue, and another threatened to leave because they thought Im too liberal on another subject. Sigh. Both encounters hurt. I lost sleep and a lot of tears over both of these painful experiences when friends leave church. Years ago, […]