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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Start a new family Christmas tradition this year: read aloud the children’s book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. Read at a pace of one chapter per evening for a week. The story is funny and insightful and moving, especially for families with...
Lies we believe
The lies we believe can make us mad. We can take a lie and accept it as the truth. Usually this lie contains part of the truth, but has been distorted in some way. For example, Pastor Steve has had some negative experiences being judged by people in the church in the...
Pride and listening
Pride is a spiritual disease. Like Adam, in choosing to defy God’s commands, we take control of our own life. Pride is the inner push that prompts us to do this. Once we give in to this self-centered thinking, it becomes part of our personality. A day doesn’t pass...
Dependency and anger
Most of us don't have healthy models of how to deal with anger, and then when it spills out in our churches, ministry teams, and small groups, we wonder why we have troubles. If we are to address issues of anger in our own lives and be equipped to help others in our...
Hitting the pause button
You may have heard of the fight or flight response. When we feel threatened, we either flee or we lash out. Fight and flight are two sides of the same coin-- anger and fear. But there is a third option: fight, flight, or freeze. Freeze, in this case, means hitting the...
Anger and choices
Once we have learned to recognize and identify the way we personally express our anger, we can learn to distinguish right and wrong ways of managing it. We always have a choice about how we handle it, no matter what the other person is doing. That places the...
The many faces of anger
In my family, we were generally encouraged to share positive emotions but not negative ones. So as I was growing up and even into adulthood, I'd say, "I'm not angry. I'm just frustrated." But I've since learned that words like frustrated, irritated, or hurt are often...
Anger management for ministry leaders
I’ve just finished my first year of volunteering at the Salvation Army teaching a class in anger management. It's been a really valuable experience for me. There’s nothing quite like teaching something to get the content of what’s being taught really ingrained in your...
Christmas and career day in a public school
A story from Pastor Randy Lovejoy: My youngest son started first grade in the elementary school a short jog from the church where I serve as pastor. I was excited about this opportunity to build relationships with parents and children who, like our community, are...
Four more ways coaching aligns with biblical principles
Note: See yesterday’s blog entry for the first five. Coaching moves people toward maturity rather than dependence. Instead of simply telling people what to do, coaching helps people mature in making their own godly decisions. In this way, they grow in responsibility...
Five ways coaching aligns with biblical principles
Coaching assumes that each believer has the capacity to hear from the Holy Spirit for themselves. The Apostle Paul modeled that listening and discernment process for us: “I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit”...
Is coaching biblical?
The Bible never commands us to coach. In fact, the word coach is never used. So why coach? Should we even coach? Is coaching biblical? The Bible does command us to do certain things: to make disciples, to encourage one another, to listen to the Holy Spirit, to follow...