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6. Know What God Has Called You to Do
Eighteen years into ministry, I had a sudden interruption in my ministry career. The church I had poured into with my family for 5.5 years had to lay me off due to the financial crisis caused by an affair from people in the church leadership. I was in the middle of one of the most…
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5. Ministries Need to Be Led Not Controlled
I remember one Saturday morning in a season where it was the first day in at least a month that I was off. My phone started ringing at 7:30 am and after a quick internal argument, I didn’t answer it and turned the phone off. The next day my boss pulled me aside before church…
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2. Relationships Matter
One night about 11:00 PM, I got a call that no one wants to get. My senior pastor was on the phone, and he told me that a 16 year old in our church had hit some black ice, had spun out of control, and was hit by an oncoming truck and was killed instantly.…
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25 Things That I Learned the First 25 Years of Ministry
June 1, 1995. I walked into my first official office. It had a 6ft white table as a desk, a metal filing cabinet in the corner, a small bookshelf that, if you didn’t lean it up in the corner, it would collapse on itself, and a well used computer that took 10 minutes to turn…
