I started to feel like God was using something I could see to bring my attention to things I couldn’t.
34. Twenty Nineteen (Part 12)
Call me cynical. I don’t care. After everything that had happened up until this point, I was struggling to believe him.
31. Twenty Nineteen (Part 10)
And something inside me clicked. This was the new normal. This was the pace we would always be expected to work. It didn’t matter if I was “part-time.” Ministry was full-time.
30. Twenty Nineteen (Part 9)
The pastor was discouraged because the younger people weren’t attending business meetings. The older members of the congregation gave the majority of the money, and they were also the ones who participated in the business meetings.
29. Twenty Nineteen (Part 8)
I wanted the church as a whole to hit its knees and realize that all the money, all the politics, all the hate, and all the power were simply evil and so far away from what the church was supposed to be.
27. Twenty Nineteen (Part 6)
“I think I want to quit my job”… that’s the only thing going through my head the last two days.
26. Twenty Nineteen (Part 5)
As I sat in the pastor’s office on the day of my evaluation, instead of celebrating this fantastic thing of 9 children coming to know Jesus and being baptized in the last 8 months, we were commiserating that we were 1 away from the goal.
24. I’m Sorry (Stand Alone)
But it was too late. My daughter had lost all of her friends; the connections were gone. She was hurt on a deep level.
22. Twenty Nineteen (Part 2)
I was back a full two weeks when the pastor decided that it was time to fire the music minister.
20. Twenty Nineteen (Part 1)
It was the first inkling I had that maybe it was time for me to quit. It was a strange, unsettling feeling. I tried to ignore it and move on.