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You Can't Please Everyone

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.


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How Much You Care

Those to whom you minister may not always perfectly understand what you say, but they will soon know whether you love them or not. The secret of many ...


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A Groom By Any Other Name

Quoted from Pastoral Life magazine: My pastor and I were talking about the advisability of writing down the names of the bride and groom and keeping them ...


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Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Being a pastor's wife demanded so much involvement in church activities that I rarely participated in any outside activities. My husband recognized ...


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Following or Chasing?

The trouble with being a leader today is that you can't be sure whether people are following you or chasing you.


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No Need to Be the Best

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers known and heard than I am; all that I can say about it is that the ...


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Eulogies Ring False

Funerals of pastors are solemn affairs. At times when I attend one, however, I am struck by a strange kind of irony. After a lifetime of ministry supposedly ...


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No Time for God

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus ...


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