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August 2013

August 23, 2013

Pastors and Church Boards

From John Frye: “For God so loved the world that he did not send a...

August 16, 2013

What Pastors Like about their Jobs

From Thom Rainer: So I took to the Twitterverse again with my poll question asking...

August 16, 2013

Pastors and Weddings

From John Frye “I am not here to perform your wedding; I’m here to help...

August 13, 2013

A New Kind of DMin — for you?

We are very excited about the interest and applicants to our new DMin at Northern...

August 09, 2013

The Pastor and Other Pastors

From John Frye: The Pastor and Community Pastors A gathering of community pastors is an...

August 02, 2013

From the Shepherd’s Nook: Funerals and the Pastor

From John Frye The Pastor and Funerals If there is one area of ministry where...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Expectations of the Elders

From Thom Rainer: An experiment I tried several years ago, though, might prove instructive. When...

July 26, 2013

A Pastor’s Husband regarding His Pastor

By Jeff Leach, whose wife (Tara Beth) is a Nazarene pastor and a student at...

July 19, 2013

Thoughts from a Pastor’s Husband

This week our From the Shepherd's Nook post is by Chuck Shirey, husband of pastor-teacher...

July 12, 2013

A Pastor’s Wife on the Pastor’s Life

By John and Julie Frye On August 23 this year Julie and I will have...

July 05, 2013

Pastor and Family, by John Frye

The Pastor as a Father In the last post you heard from my daughters as...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

The Pastor’s Family: Daughters Speaking

By John Frye It’s telling that a book is titled Life in a Glass House:...

June 27, 2013

Man of God Syndrome

By Steve Hill: Thank you Steve Hill. What are two marks of this man-of-God syndrome?...

June 24, 2013

The Virtuous Leader

The difference, it can be said, between a leader and a follower is that the...

June 10, 2013

The Three S’s of Leadership

There is one kind of leader who may be called The Imposer, though The Imposer...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Incarnation is Not a Ministry Strategy

One of the new buzzwords for ministry models is "incarnation" and various leaders now speak...

April 23, 2013

Can We Read One Another’s Minds? Andrew Root Says Yes

We all know the experience of the irresistible nature of yawning -- when someone we...

April 11, 2013

Relational Ministry 101: Person

If relational ministry is the beat of this generation, and I suspect Andrew Root in Relational...

April 04, 2013

Individualism vs. Person

There is a radical difference between treating someone as an individual vs. treating someone as...

April 02, 2013

Relational Ministry is not a Strategy

In the history of thought the one person who plumbed the depths of relationship was...

March 2013

March 02, 2013

Expectations: Theirs and Mine!

This post is by Mark Stevens, a pastor-friend in Australia, and I suspect we can...

February 2013

February 05, 2013

Mud and the Masterpiece

One of my favorite pastors in the USA is John Burke in Austin TX at...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

From the Shepherd’s Nook: The Pastor’s Mt Everest

No Pain, No Gain In the last post I mentioned that so many of us...

January 04, 2013

From the Shepherd’s Nook: Facing a New Year

Beginning a New Year, by John Frye Facing a new year always generates conflicting feelings...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

From the Shepherd’s Nook: Advent Shepherd (John Frye)

Dressed in their bathrobes and head-dresses and holding their cardboard shepherd’s crooks, the little boys...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

From the Shepherd’s Nook: Prayer

Quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, EHP writes, “A pastor should never complain about his congregation,...

November 12, 2012

Building a Change Culture

For many readers of this blog it was the worship wars where it became obvious...

November 09, 2012

From the Shepherd’s Nook: Pain

This series on pastoral theology is by our friend, a pastor, and an author: John...

November 06, 2012

Environment Matters

This post is for those whose church meets in a single location on a regular...

November 02, 2012

From the Shepherd’s Nook: John Frye and Parable of the Bible

This post is by John Frye. Many pastors like myself were given “tools” in seminary...