Protect your Heart
Metaphorically, the heart is considered the seat of emotions, desires, and character. Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) states “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
Thriving Clergy
Chaplain’s Corner- Chaplain Bill Wickham
Intellectually Stimulating Podcasts
With the advent of the podcast has come vast new opportunities for individual learning and growth.
Managing Your Negative Emotions
Managing Your Negative Emotions While most church leaders prefer to avoid negative emotions such as distress, fear, anxiety, etc., all church leaders will experience a variety of negative emotions at some point. Negative emotions are our survival brain’s early warning...
Five Conclusions about Money to Pastors from Paul
This month, we’ll examine five conclusions from the life and teaching of Paul especially as relates to pastors.
Building Safe and Secure Relationships
Creating and maintaining connections that feel safe and secure with your spouse is an ongoing process that requires vulnerability and courage.
Do You Need that Antibiotic?
Do You Need that Antibiotic? Church is meant to be a place of community where the body of believers share their life journey and grow in their relationships with God and each other. These interactions whether one on one, small groups, or a Sunday service are essential...
The Case for Wesleyan Higher Education
The Case for Wesleyan Higher Education On August 27th, 2021, The New York Times headline, The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist left many scratching their heads. Reporter, Emma Goldberg opened the story: The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the...
Five Conclusions about Money from Jesus
Five Conclusions about Money from Jesus Back in May, we explored five conclusions about money from the Old Testament. In that article, I claimed that there was consistent theological truth around money from Genesis to Revelation. Since we looked at five conclusions...
Hearing God – A Way of Life (Part 3)
Have you ever noticed how important it is to pay attention to the tone of voice with which something is said?
Do You Understand Your Health?
We live in a world inundated with information and opinions. However, accessing information does not equate to understanding. This is especially true regarding health.
IFE: Iniciativa hacia Finanzas Exitosas
La Iniciativa hacia Finanzas Exitosas (IFE) es un programa diseñado para ayudar a los pastores a superar los desafíos económicos que afectan la eficacia del ministerio. Trabajando juntos, el pastor y dos líderes clave en la iglesia local, colaboran p
TFI: Thrive Financial Initiative
The Thrive Financial Initiative (TFI) is a program designed to help pastors overcome economic challenges that affect ministry effectiveness. Working together, the pastor and key lay leaders in a local church collaborate to provide extra funds or reso
Working “Smart” in Ministry
We have all heard the phrase, “work smarter, not harder,” so how does this principle apply to pastoral ministry?
Are You Experiencing Compassion Fatigue?
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9). Compassion fatigue is “weariness in doing good.”
Financial Resources for Financial Wellbeing
There are many available avenues for financial strategies for those desiring faith-based resources.
Thrive In 5-The Art of Love
In your family, how can you embody some aspect of 1 Corinthians 13 a little bit more?
Thrive In 5- Hearing God – A Way of Life (Part 2)
Hearing God isn’t just about receiving guidance, but rather about entering into a lifelong, interactive relationship of communication, intimacy, and living our whole life in the will of God.
Thrive In 5: Physical – When Being Too Sweet Is Bad
The demand on clergy is taxing. Ministry often demands more than pastors feel they can give. Add in bi-vocational, family needs, and a pandemic, it is easy to understand why a pastor’s personal health suffers.
Thrive In 5: Intellectual – Re-Discovering A Pre-Modern Paradigm
As pastoral leaders in an age of upheaval, the guidance we seek from the Bible will elude us if we exclusively rely on modern or postmodern paradigms
Thrive In 5-The Motivational (Emotional)
As a pastor, If you have discovered that your motivation has taken a vacation and left you behind, you are not alone.
Thrive In 5-Five P’s for Joyful Giving (Financial)
The Bible tells us that God loves a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7), but too often giving feels like an obligation–this can be just as true for pastors as for lay people.
Thrive In 5-Co-Regulation (Relational)
“Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” –Jesus, John 14:27
Thrive In 5- Hearing God – A Way of Life (Part 1)
In our current cultural climate, there are so many voices vying for our attention. It’s hard to know who to trust.
