Archive for category The Healthy Pastor

I’m generally a pretty healthy guy.  I don’t always eat perfectly or exercise much, but God has blessed me with a strong immune system I suppose.  I rarely catch the cold or flu that “everyone is getting” in spite of the exposure. Read the rest of this entry »

I live around the corner from the newest health club in town, which so far means exactly nothing. I have a membership. Read the rest of this entry »

My amazing wife and I have four kids. Needless to say, our lives are busy. A growing church and a growing family makes things pretty hectic for us. Read the rest of this entry »

Stress is what I struggle with most these days.  I have a hard time shutting my mind off at night, sometimes to the point of tossing and turning for a few hours before falling to sleep.  It seems that there are two things that have affected how I deal with stress:    Read the rest of this entry »

I will never forget the Sunday I walked into the foyer of our Church just two weeks after Summer Youth Camp.  We had a western theme that year and the Junior Camp director had taken a picture of me and had it enlarged and then displayed it in the Church foyer for our camp Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

I have certainly witnessed many pastors who have felt so compelled to give their all for the cause of Christ that they interpreted ‘giving their all’ to include a neglect of their wives and children all for the sake of the ministry.  I would like to put forward the idea that family and ministry do not have to be adversaries competing for the attention and time of the pastor. Read the rest of this entry »

About 5 years ago I started taking 3 weeks off every summer.  I’ve been amazed at the response I get from fellow pastors about this.  Many say they could never do that. Read the rest of this entry »

“Friday:  Date night!”  That’s what Friday means on my calendar.  I decided, when I first entered the ministry to have one night that would be a date night with my wife.  I heard a very profound pastor at a minister’s conference say that this would be a great thing to do (for the life of me I don’t remember who that guy was).  Anyway, it was great advice.  I don’t know of too many things that I do that really impresses my wife, but holding hard and fast to that night being “our date night” means more to her than I can tell you. Read the rest of this entry »