Feb 22, 2024 | friendship, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor
For leaders, friendships are difficult to find and maintain. Yet from the beginning of the Book, God put it out there for us: “It is not good for the man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18. Jesus modeled it, too. In today’s post, Jaime Hlavin answers these two questions: “Why...
Feb 20, 2024 | friendship, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor
We’ve been talking almost exclusively in 2024 about whole person wellbeing. We’ve talked about working on our wellbeing as a matter of obedience vs. preference; about developing a responsible relationship with ourself; about a new healthy rhythm: our capacity and the...
Feb 13, 2024 | Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Rest, Rhythms, Work
We’ve rapped about work/rest rhythms multiple times over the 4+ years we’ve been podcasting together. We’ve unpacked four of them in the past: Daily – Genesis 1:5 – hard edges on workday. Weekly – Genesis 2:2 – a weekly pause. Sabbath Quarterly – reset every 90 days....
Feb 8, 2024 | Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Rest, Rhythms, Work
If you’ve followed us here at Converge Coaching for a bit, then you know how we feel about work/rest rhythms. The concept is foundational for so much of what we do to help you stay healthy in leadership. You can probably rattle them off faster than I can list them:...
Feb 6, 2024 | Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Self-Care
In today’s episode we continue our series of podcasts on a leader’s well-being. We unpack three important questions: What does it mean to be properly related to yourself? How do you get there? And . . . why does it matter? Our capacity to be properly related to those...
Jan 30, 2024 | Depression, Leadership, Mental Health, Ministry Leader, Pastor
In today’s episode we continue our compelling conversation with Dave Barringer about the epidemic of depression in today’s culture. In today’s pod Dave gives us pro tips on how to get and stay mentally/emotionally healthy. In chapter 1 of your book, you state that...
