How Do You Assess Your Ministry’s Effectiveness?
Assessment. I don’t know many people in ministry who get excited by the idea of it, let alone the process. I think, […]
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Ideas for March
It’s March! I don’t know about you, but every year — as we turn the calendar page to the month of March […]
LESS IS MORE: Reversing the Crazy Pace of Ministry
It’s a new year and I’m resolving to make some changes.
This year, in regards to how I approach ministry with college students, I’m taking a ‘LESS IS MORE’ approach.
Why?
Because what I’ve been doing has not been working.
Cramming my calendar full of meetings and overwhelming the campus calendar with more and more ministry-related opportunities has not yielded the kind of ‘fruitful results’ that I’ve hoped for.
A Campus Ministry Final Exam || REpost
It’s exam time on campus…
And I guess it only makes sense that at the end of the semester we would put ourselves through a “final exam” of sorts… right?
With all that has happened and hasn’t happened — with all of the feelings of relief, release, regret, ready-to-be-done-ness that we feel at the end of the term, it is important for us to consider how we might make these final couple of weeks before the Christmas holiday as fruitful as possible.
Are We Becoming/Creating Contemplative Activists?
In my post yesterday I introduced a term that was new, to me, as of this week: Contemplative Activist It’s a term […]
Ideas for October
It’s October! Wait, what?! And just like that most of us are now 4-6 weeks into our fall term. So, […]
What Are Your Standards?
What are your standards for your leaders?
Do you have any?
Do they know what you expect?
Have you set the bar to high? To low?
The Dark Side of Leadership
When leaders fall it’s not pretty. When Christian leaders fall it seems even worse. The pain. The hurt. The confusion. The impact. […]
Online Spiritual Formation [?]
While the origins of the internet reach back to the 1960s, I was in college when it came of age (mid […]
An Honest Assessment
In two previous posts on assessment, Satisfying Work [?] and 3 Steps to More Satisfying Work, I shared a few points of […]