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By Ed Stetzer This is the fifth and final blog post in a series regarding pastors developing healthy boundaries in their ministry. I’m sharing four key points in the process, thinking of them as four fence posts around a healthy ministry. I have already shared the first three “posts:” recognize your role in the church,... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer This is the fourth blog post in a series (intro, fence post 1, fence post 2) regarding pastors developing healthy boundaries in their ministry. I’m sharing four key points in the process, thinking of them as four fence posts around a healthy ministry. I have already shared the first two “posts:” recognize... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer In the introduction to this series, I talked about how your schedule is not the primary problem that leads to burn out, rather it was not setting healthy boundaries in your ministry. Last time, I said the first “post” in your ministry boundary fence is to recognize your role in the church.... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer In the first post of this series, I began a discussion on the importance of pastors establishing healthy boundaries in ministry. As it’s an area in which I have personally struggled, and one in which I continue to grow, I’m passionate about sharing what I have learned in order to help others... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer We live in a world that is defined by boundaries. Our roads are painted with them, our sports games are designed around them, and our psychologists tell us that we need to expand them around that codependent crazy aunt of ours. While it may be true that the term “boundaries” has been... Continue Reading →
By David A. Busic It has often been said that the union of three different groups to form the Church of the Nazarene at Pilot Point, Texas, USA, was to promote the biblical doctrine of holiness as expressed in the teaching of John Wesley and the American Holiness Movement. While that is certainly true, what... Continue Reading →
Today we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of a sad day in United States - and world - history. At 6:01pm on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Only 39 years old, he was pronounced dead at 7:05pm at St. Joseph's hospital.... Continue Reading →
From March 9 to 11, 53 youth from Dominican Republic and Haiti joined together to serve in the first Maximum Mission organized in the D.R. East District. During the weekend, the visiting participants joined two Nazarene churches in the city of Higuey, using their gifts and talents to impact the specific community of Juan Pablo... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong In the three weeks since Billy Graham died at the age of 99, I have been reflecting on his life and his legacy. Four of his quotes have stuck with me and I would like to offer them to you here. “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion –... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong General Secretary David P. Wilson and Nazarene Research Services recently released the annual Church of the Nazarene statistical reports for 2017. These detailed reports documenting the missional activities of the denomination on a global scale show growth for the Church of the Nazarene over the statistical year, as well as continued growth... Continue Reading →
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