Some resources to begin your year in a healthy manner.
Thank you for all you do for the ministry you do in response to the call of God.
Experiencing the Psalms, an award winning examination of the Psalms, provides a framework for examining current ethical problems, attending to the emotional stress of being a clergy, and opens the possibility for worshippers to bring the full range of their emotions to God in worship.
Available from Smyth & Helwys at www.helwys.com.–Currently on sale for $5.00
| A Company of Pastors offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in the lives of religious leaders. The book offers a two-year framework for a clergy support group among pastors. It invites them to practice fun, food, and fellowship as a prophetic witness against all the pressures that seek to set them one against another. It invites clergy to rediscover the support of the beloved community as an antidote to the toxic isolation so frequent among clergy.
Kindle: $3.99 Print: $11.99
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| An Interim Pastor’s Gift recognizes that an interim is the right person to educate a congregation not only on the challenges of ministry but also on ways a congregation can join the pastor to maintain a healthy ministry.
This book identifies the challenges to a pastor’s health and offers suggestions on how the interim can educate the congregation about healthy ministry prior to the new pastor’s arrival. It is one of the great gifts that an interim can offer a congregation as s/he leads the congregation through a vital but sometimes confusing time of transition. Kindle: $2.99  Shaping healthy churches to receive new pastors. Print: $9.99
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| God Laughs—Why Don’t You? introduces the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of ministry so that the clergy can both sustain their own health and offer a healthy presence to those around them. The author provides specific ways to utilize humor in the practice of ministry from counseling to conflict, preaching to pastoral visits, and a pastor’s survival notebook for one’s personal health.
Kindle: $4.99
Print: $14.99 I WILL SOON BE DEVELOPING SIX SMALL BOOKS IN THE HEALTHY CLERGY MAKE HEALTHY CONGREGATIONS SERIES OFFERING STRATEGIES FOR PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, FAMILY, FINANCIAL, SPIRITUAL, AND VOCATIONAL HEALTH. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A FREE PDF VERSION OF THE FIRST BOOK — PHYSICAL HEALTH–SEND ME A REQUEST AT STEVE@SMCCUTCHAN.COM. |
