May 23, 2023 | Discipleship, Exhaustion, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Rest, Sabbath
In today’s episode we chat with Karl Vaters about the positive trends he is observing with churches across the country, a few challenging trends, and what leaders can do about those challenging trends. You can listen to the podcast here. Here is the video...
Oct 6, 2022 | Burnout, Exhaustion, Fatigue, Leadership, Pastor, Rest, Sabbath, Stress, Workaholism
One of the hardest things to do for most leaders is to separate from work. Pivoting from their professional life to their private life. I know this from personal experience. I had to work hard as a lead pastor to shut off work once I entered our home. According to the...
Aug 25, 2022 | Burnout, Exhaustion, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Sabbath, Workaholism
If you ask twenty people how many hours per week is reasonable for a leader to work, you’d probably get twenty different answers. Researchers from the business world have proven time and again that once you hit forty-five hours in a week, productivity (for most normal...
Jul 26, 2022 | Calling, discouragement, Doubt, Exhaustion, Insecurity, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Podcast, Quitting, Resilience
Monday morning . . . The sworn enemy of pastors. It’s said that many pastors quit every Monday morning, only to re-up sometime later in the week. On Monday morning, Sunday gets replayed in our head. The good and the not-so-good The question is: What can we do about...
Jul 7, 2022 | Burnout, discouragement, Exhaustion, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Quitting
Monday morning . . . The sworn enemy of pastors. It’s said that many pastors quit every Monday morning, only to re-up sometime later in the week. On Monday morning, Sunday gets replayed in our head. The good and the not-so-good. “Thank you, Lord for Your felt...
Jul 5, 2022 | Burnout, Exhaustion, Leadership, Margin, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Podcast, Productivity, Work, Workaholism
Increasing your team’s weekly hours by 50 percent (from 40 to 60 hours) does not result in 50 percent more productivity. Most leaders assume the extra hours will produce an equally matched extra output . . . but usually, this formula fails. In today’s episode, John...
