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Mark Shaffer
All of Ministry Leadership is connected. I created this podcast to grow your overall health and performance as a pastor and a person through mindset and best practices.
Here's my top four tricks for leading with resolve through seasonal depression. Yes I have it, no it doesn't stop me. It shouldn't stop you either... if you do these simple things.
hit me up at mark@lionpastor.com if you wanna jam on this.
To your growth and joy,
Pastor Mark
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A little time with a quote from Rumi, and why you might need a passion project outside of your church context...
hit me up at mark@lionpastor.com if you wanna jam on this.
To your growth and joy,
Pastor Mark
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A few thoughts on systematizing whatever you can to make time for what only you can do. Have fun!
To your growth and joy,
Pastor Mark
How to get your relational blindspots down to a helpful, life and ministry saving mantra. Cheat code: First you have to own that you have blindspots and name them-- that's the heavy lifting Pastor.
hit me up at mark@lionpastor.com if you wanna jam on this.
To your growth and joy,
Pastor Mark
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Hey Pastors!
Here's a musing from my own devotions this morning. Let us be the pastor who has faith in God not faith in statistics, numbers, and metrics. The Lord looks at the heart, and I think he is honored when your heart trusts him.
To your growth and joy,
Pastor Mark
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Chrysippus explains that constancy of character is one of the hallmarks of virtue. As you serve families, have you thought about the relational baseline you want to have for them? What four or five words would you hope would come to mind if people were asked to define your character? Once you have them in mind, make it so.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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Epictetus explains that in a world of complexity we should strive for simple and true living. When applied to worry, he suggests not worrying about anything beyond your control, or ability to affect the outcome. Here's how to think about worry and control and what to do with it as a ministry leader, especially if you have been burdened with worry.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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How the very last thing you want to do is many times exactly what you need to go after next. How the last convo you want to have needs to be the first one you have next. How taking on precisely what you don't want to do will get you where you do want to be...
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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Whether you know it or not, you have an energy account as a human being. When you serve well you withdraw, when you take some downtime you make a deposit. It's true-- No cap. But here's the thing: You have to have more in your account than you try to give away to be joyful, effective, helpful, and hopeful.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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Hey Pastors! Here's how to leave the lesser minds of Christian leadership behind and make better stuff by reading better content from tradition.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
Have fun, here are some links...
Here's the shortcut to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthego AND surprise. Here's the link to the RELATE GREAT MASTERCLASS.
Find the code in the mastermind group to get ten bucks off.https://lioncoaching.samcart.com/products/relate-great or just click HERE.
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So many times ministry leaders are confused when an unhealthy context causes them to change course. It is bewildering and confusing, especially if you thought you were called to be there in the first place. Here's the thing. The worst thing may be the best thing, and your singular vision may be nearsighted.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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Hey Pastors! Here is a short riff on defining your ministry career outcomes before you hit the ground running preemptively.
Success for pastors is a moving target in our culture, and it is so important for us to know who we want to be, how we want to lead, and how to do it for the long haul and LOVE it. hope this helps!
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
Have fun, here are some links...
Here's the shortcut to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthego AND surprise. Here's the link to the RELATE GREAT MASTERCLASS.
Find the code in the mastermind group to get ten bucks off.https://lioncoaching.samcart.com/products/relate-great or just click HERE.
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
How one teacher's death can invite you to new life and perspective as a pastor. Here's a little story to reframe your calling, purpose, ministry, and life.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
Have fun, here are some links...
Here's the shortcut to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthego AND surprise. Here's the link to the RELATE GREAT MASTERCLASS.
Find the code in the mastermind group to get ten bucks off.https://lioncoaching.samcart.com/products/relate-great or just click HERE.
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
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How to take something you are not so fond of... like running or biking or lifting or rowing or sweating or you get the point, and tie it down to something of immense value, like prayer or learning or audio listening.
To your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
Have fun, here are some links...
Here's the shortcut to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthego AND surprise. Here's the link to the RELATE GREAT MASTERCLASS.
Find the code in the mastermind group to get ten bucks off.https://lioncoaching.samcart.com/products/relate-great or just click HERE.
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
How there is a cost to significant work and ministry, and how resistance can be an encouraging sign on your way to bending culture.
Real quick, here's the link to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthegoHere's to your growth and joy!
Mark
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
How words create our identity as ministry leaders, and how you ought to think and speak about your evolution as a pastor. To reclaim the joy of ministry for a full career or to level up as a pastor, check out www.lionpastor.com
I hope the tears you have planted in the ground send you home with sheaves of good crop... but here is what a bumper crop looks like post pandemic. It's not what you might think.
Real quick, here's the link to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthegoHere's to your growth and joy!
Mark
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
This Jesus story is in an astounding conversation with the prophets of Israel, and your story is in beautiful conversation with them both. I hope you get your sight back, because you have faith to call on the Son of David. I love you all, it's an honor to journey together.
Real quick, here's the link to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthegoHere's to your growth and joy!
Mark
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
Hey Pastors! This one is on the tears every pastor and every parishioner has for the past two years AND the hope that God's kingdom is still possible and still near and still everyday.
Real quick, here's the link to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthegoHere's to your growth and joy!
Mark
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
Pastors are just like anyone else-- we often feel a strong tug-of-war between family life and work life. Here are 3 secrets to finding a a good balance, 1 shift that will change relationships on both fronts, and a riff on Herod the Great. have fun!
Real quick, here's the link to the new ON THE GO COACHING program from LION PASTOR. It would be an honor to journey together.
www.lionpastor.com/onthegoHere's to your growth and joy!
Mark
Oh! BTW, Don't forget to come join our growing group of ministry leaders in our facebook group. Here's a link to join: LION PASTORMIND FACEBOOK GROUP
This episode explores an idea from Heschel that everything we do and say in the House of the World matters. Against a backdrop of cynicism and absurdity, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Heschel maintained that the word was made by God, that life was meant to b lived with God, and that human religion is simply the answer to God's question. Food for thought, and some meaning we really need right now in an absurd culture.
Heart, Mark
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Why the best leaders should take Marcus Aurelius' timeless advice that it is okay to ask for help! This is especially true when you have an important mission.
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The right and wrong way to introduce new cultural concepts from antiquity when yer teaching the Bible. First my bad example, then what I should have done instead. Ha! Hope it saves you from trouble. Or Sheol!
Here's to your growth and joy!
Pastor Mark
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Jesus is a proponent of the philosophical idea that virtuous actions (good fruit) and conversely deeds of vice (bad fruit) are actually only the deepest parts a person's interior self coming out. Here's what that means to leaders like us and why close and continuous self-examination is so necessary.
Here's to your growth and joy!
Mark
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Socrates says the greatest honor you may have in this life is to be who you pretend to be. It is all too easy for ministry leaders to be professionals at behaving but compartmentalizing other areas. This episode challenges you with my pastor's advice, to "be a disciple first."
To your growth and joy, Mark
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Why people are longing for connection to something trustworthy and ancient (that's Jesus) and people that have their back no matter what (that's community), and why they are no longer looking for a charismatic leader. That's great news for great relational pastors.
Fist bump.
Here's a reminder to go all in for taking care of the people God has given you to serve, and to reject stages and celebrity.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
Why after talking to a tonna ministry leaders, I know you are stronger than you think. And why that is a good thing... because weight holds weight.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
Why it is past time for many churches and possibly your own to either be remarkable or die out... and what mindset to have about inventing new communities centered upon Jesus, community, and identity. Holla Holla!
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How the intersection of emotional health and calming anxieties is found at notice. name. and prepare. These strong emotions are often extra prevalent in leaders because leaders carry extra weight. So here's how to notice emotions coming, name the emotion correctly, and have a game plan for what to do about it.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How triangulation is the lymphoma of the church body and how for authentic community to be true, gossip must be untrue. Here's how to draw this out so everyone can see it.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
Why many leaders have a shadow side and why you simply have to shine a light on it if you want to serve with health and joy. Integrity and authenticity are not things you find in the dark. Fist bump.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How rock hard times are character forming, and how to spin obstacles into wisdom. The paradox that the times when the bottom falls out, are often the the very times where you are growing into a person of uncommon depth and character.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
You can only serve people to the degree that you can forgive them. If you cannot let go when people act wit treachery or betrayal, you will punish them, stop growing yourself, and do ministry closed off instead of wide open. This is a heavy one. Hope it helps.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How the best ministry leaders reject power and claim authority, and how authority can only stand in public if it stands in your private life. You gain authority by being a trustworthy guide at home, THEN in your church, NOT the other way around.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How to make sure your church is a great place to work, your staff wants to stay and your team is on a journey to great destinations. How you ask? Choose learning over performance.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How effective leaders are leaders who know how to focus on the right things in the right sequence, and know that the best ideas and solutions often come during recovery times in-between blasts of work.
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How to define the win BEFORE having important convos with staff and the people you serve. This is the best way to move emotional overload towards a conversation that moves the dial instead of just stewing on it. Ha!
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How to move from noticing and naming strong emotions to choosing a positive outcome, in the moment, on the fly. We do this by pausing, breathing, delaying or leaving OR publicly naming the emotion we instinctively want to hide... Good times. Hope this helps!
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Heart, Pastor Mark
How to notice and name the five core emotions before they lead to an emotional flood.
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Rawr!!
Heart, Pastor Mark
How to prepare for strong emotions well ahead of their arrival and how to have a game plan for things that cause emotional struggle. This one is a game changer Ranger!
To reclaim the joy of serving in ministry leadership, or simply to level up in time and energy, emotional, relational, and spiritual health, or gain essential skills as an organizational leader, join me at www.lionpastor.com.
Most leaders who are creative and innovative also struggle wit emotional lows. Here's a first step to defining what is going on in your mind and in your heart. Heart, Pastor Mark
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Why the best leaders are completely okay with being wrong, with other team members having the best ideas, and more concerned with failing well than never failing.
Heart, Pastor Mark
How sometimes our own vision, ideas, and paths we want people to walk might be getting in the way of their growth and participation, and how to serve the people you love by presenting options, selecting destinations as a team, and most of all, LOVING life in the wild.
To reclaim the joy of ministry leadership or to simply level up as a pastor, visit me at www.lionpastor.com.
Heart, Pastor Mark
My top 5 guidelines for crafting an anti-sermon in a post lecture world. Visit me at www.lionpastor.com to reclaim the joy of ministry leadership,
and start having fun again doing impactful, effective work as a pastor. Argh! Pastor Mark
How Lebron James has been so stinking good for so long, and what the best ministry leaders in the world already invest in. Visit me at www.lionpastor.com to level up as a pastor or to recover the joy of ministry for the long haul!
Heart, Pastor Mark
The fear and anxiety of money in ministry leadership is real, pervasive, and ongoing. But it does have an upside. The compelling example of your commitment to choose simplicity and Kingdom of God over Kingdom of wealth.
For ways to grow and reclaim your heart as a ministry leader, head to LION PASTOR at www.lionpastor.com.
Heart, Pastor Mark
A simple question venn diagram for creative work. For more ways to level up as a pastor and reclaim the joy of ministry for a full career,
visit me at www.lionpastor.com.When you are ready, consider booking a call to talk about how you are feeling stuck, and how I can help.
Heart, Pastor Mark
Why you should give up arguing online with randos about religion and politics and do the unique work you have to do in the house of the world: Create instead of Consume.
Feeling a little more gazelle and a little less lion in ministry leadership? Visit me at www.lionpastor.com to reclaim joyful service for a full career or simply to level up as a ministry leader.
Much love, Pastor Mark
A mantra to differentiate yourself from the masses and how Heraclitus says you can tell the difference between the true warrior and the rest of the rank and file.
Feeling a little more tired in ministry leadership and a little less warrior? Visit me at www.lionpastor.com to reclaim joyful service for a full career or simply to level up as a ministry leader.
Much love, Pastor Mark
Leaders ought to make a health decision one time for all time. What are the health decisions you need to met one time with consistency to change the overall quality of your life? Heart, Pastor Mark
Why leading yourself well is the first step to leading others well, and how answering yes is a thousand nos to many things culture blindly does when it comes to your own health and energy. To level up as a pastor or recover your heart and love serving again for a full career, visit me at www.lionpastor.com. Heart, Pastor Mark
How to dodge sucker punches of culture by having a rock solid ministry philosophy. Krav Maga and mega cultural architecting no matter the weather.
Check out lionpastor.com for more information on how to reclaim the joy of ministry and serve healthy for a full career. Much love, pastor Mark
Hey Pastors! Can you think of the core practices that makes a leader one who can be trusted? Here's a short list I came up with about what lets the people who serve alongside you and the families in your care know they can count on you to be deeply for them and with them no matter what. Check out lionpastor.com for more information on how to reclaim the joy of ministry and serve healthy for a full career. Much love, pastor Mark
How to adjust your relational modus operandi based on the hierarchical structure of your ministry organization... and how to stay in good with your boss and elder team.
Check out lionpastor.com for more information on how to reclaim the joy of ministry and serve healthy for a full career. Much love, pastor Mark
How context switching happens all the time to busy leaders and steals 23 minutes of your day every time. Here’s what context switching is and what to do about it. Much love, Pastor Mark
How to name and understand addiction in ministry leadership, and how to trade it in for courage and greatness of soul. Heart, Pastor Mark
Here are the 3 reasons you can stop growing spiritually even while leading them as a Pastor: You get tired, you get mistreated, you do nothing to grow for a long time. Here's why they happen and what to do to get back on track.
Heart, Pastor Mark
How ministry is more than teaching and event planning-- it is the cultural architecture of the Kingdom of God. And what are the foundations of such a person? Well... I'm so glad you asked!...
Visit lionpastor.com to reclaim the joy of serving in church ministry or simply to level up as a cultural architect. Fist bump, Pastor Mark
Many conflicts grow unnecessarily or cause sideways motion when they could have been resolved quickly and fully. This episode of Daily Ministry Mindset is all about how triangulation creates too many angles and facets to problems and can be toxic for a ministry team. If you are any sort of leader managing a staff, this one is essential. Visit lionpastor.com for resources on leveling up as a ministry leader. Heart, Pastor Mark
To go farther faster as a ministry leader and to reclaim the joy of serving for a full career, visit me at www.lionpastor.com. Heart, Pastor Mark
How the rescuer archetype is exhausting and a recipe for burning out. Even more important, how to flip rescuing into coaching your staff, your board, and the people you serve. For help picking up the right problems and turning the wrong ones away, visit lionpastor.com.
At Lion Pastor, we are young, scrappy and freaking love pastors- especially the ones who are tired, burning out, and just need a little love! And so we'll take all the help we can get. You can help us out by reviewing the show (like go do it right now...much love!) and don't forget to describe.
How we put on the archetype of the victim in Karpmann's Drama Triangle and how to put on creative problem solving instead. Give us a review on iTunes, share the show with a friend, and head to www.lionpastor.com to reclaim the joy of pastoral ministry for the long haul. Shut up, get rad, it's time to skate or die. Love Pastor Mark.
YOU are your own trinity of drama. Here are the roles we all play and how to catch yourself in the act. Next time we will start to dissect identifying victim, rescuer, and persecutor one at a time in ourselves first, and the people we lead second. Head to www.lionpastor.com to reclaim the joy of serving ministry for a full career. Holla holla. Pastor Mark.
Mark explores how emotions are not good or bad, they are experienced and how we deal with them is the moral component for the disciple and leader. Visit me at lionpastor.com for more help with emotions, relationships, spiritual growth, and health as a ministry leader. You can love serving again and I can help. Heart, Pastor Mark
Mark unpacks the five emotions psychologists say are behind every feeling and mood we experience, and how naming them makes a huge difference in what comes next: Responding to emotions in a healthy way to lead healthy people. Visit me at www.lionpastor.com for tons of freebies and ways to level up as a ministry leader. Much love! Mark
Hey Pastors! Here are four pitfalls I had to discover in myself about having the healthiest possible interactions with people SO THAT the families I love and serve could grow in faith and thrive in life. Much love! For help leveling up as an organizational leader, reclaiming joy in ministry, or emotional/relational/spiritual health-- check out lionpastor.com. Don't forget to give the show a review!
How you can go much farther faster in outward job performance when you are okay on the inside. OR how you cannot expect to be a trustworthy guide on the outside if you are dishonest about health on the inside. To level up or reclaim the joy of ministry leadership, visit me at www.lionpastor.com. Heart, Mark
The single most important shift for a leader that will improve every relationship you have. Visit me at Lionpastor.com to go farther faster as a healthy, joyful, effective pastor. Heart, Pastor Mark
How thinking about two kinds of folks in your own journey as a pastor can frame relational intelligence in your ministry. Visit lionpastor.com for free resources and information on how to reclaim the joy of ministry leadership for a full career. Heart, Pastor Marn
How seasons of growth are the direct result of discomfort and how comfort never did anything for anyone trying to level up. For help leveling up as a pastor or to recover from frustration or burnout, visit lionpastor.com for free resources, encouragement, or to book coaching call.
Achieving the best possible goals for the people you lead has much to do with how you set them in the first place. Here are 3 laws for setting goals that accomplish the most as a ministry leader. Visit www.lionpastor.com to grow as a ministry leader or reclaim the joy of serving for a full career if you are feeling stuck. Heart, Pastor Mark
Here are some of the most common blind spots in ministry leadership, along with how we ought to frame our thinking instead. For more help with emotional, relational, spiritual, and physical health in ministry and to level up as a communicator, vision caster, and organizational leader, visit www.lionpastor.com. Heart, Pastor Mark
Around 10 out of 10 leaders have blind spots that are already known by the people we serve and serve alongside. The danger zone is when everyone knows our blindspots and we keep doing them again and again because we haven't done the hard work to IDENTIFY, NAME, and ADJUST the words and behaviors that block our relational health and keep people around us from growing. For more information on how to reclaim the joy of serving for a full career or simply to level up in your craft as a pastor, visit me at lionpastor.com. Heart, Pastor Mark
How to be High Competency, Low Ego as a pastor and servant leader and why emotional health, relational intelligence, spiritual growth, and physical prowess are areas of life you cannot afford to be low competency, high ego. To level up as a ministry leader or to counter burnout and find a renewed joy in ministry for a full career, visit lionpastor.com and book a call. Heart, Pastor Mark
How to set boundaries around your marriage, family, and work life to avoid the burnout cycle and serve with longevity and joy. Visit lionpastor.com if you are tired from serving or want to level up as a communicator and organizational leader.
How and why pastors burn out and when to make a change. To level up in your job performance through optimized emotional, relational, spiritual, and physical health visit lionpastor.com
How to divide opportunities for relationships into two categories: Carry or connect. Carried relationships you give personal bandwidth to, connected relationships are ones you introduce to someone else in your community. For help reclaiming the joy of ministry through emotional, relational, spiritual, physical health and optimized job performance, visit www.lionpastor.com.
Why ministry leaders need to set the standard for their physical health matching their spiritual health, because they are forever connected and YOU ARE THE MESSAGE. Check out lionpastor.com for help with getting going physically or spiritually, where we reclaim the joy of serving and reimagine pastoral ministry. Heart, Pastor Mark
Plotinus explains we should always be carving the statue of our life. As a pastor, this means proportionally growing in emotional, relational, spiritual, and physical health. All aspects of our job performance and a life worth emulating are built upon this foundation. Before you pack it in or if you are tired of ministry feeling extremely difficult, check out lionpastor.com where I help pastors reclaim the joy of pastoral ministry for a full career. Peace. Pastor Mark
Hey Lionpastor, this episode is for anyone who has ever felt a meeting went from helpful...to awkward-sauce. This is my simple formula for running a meeting that is effective AND that everyone leaves feeling great. To reclaim the joy of ministry or level up for a full career in emotional, relational, spiritual, physical health and job performance, visit www.lionpastor.com. When you're ready, book a call. I would LOVE to hear more about the good, bad, and the ugly in your ministry and chat about your next steps. In your corner, Pastor Mark
How emotional health is the missing link between intelligence and job performance and how emotional intelligence can make or break your career as a ministry leader.
Book a call at www.lionpastor.com to explore how to reclaim the joy of ministry for a full career or simply level up as a pastor. Heart, Pastor Mark