Rest is not weakness! The first thing we need to recognize is the potential within all of us to burn out. We aren’t superhuman. We all have our limitations, and it’s not lack of faith to take an occasional sabbath. Pastors, if you don’t make an intentional effort to rest, it will take you. Watch […]
Author Archives: Todd Rhoades
Five-Second Decisions that Change Your Ministry
We’re all five seconds away from a decision that could change our lives. I read a book called “The Five Second Rule”, and it talks about the reality that we are all just five seconds away from a decision that could drastically change our lives, sometimes forever. Maybe it’s something like swerving left instead of […]
Where I Want to Be vs. Where God Wants Me to Be
New seasons in ministry always have church leaders thinking about their future. At least they do for me. Just about every church leader I know says he/she feels called to ministry. But each person describes that call differently. Some people had a very dramatic time, moment, even second when they knew that God had called […]
When to Leave…
How to know when it’s time to go, before you stay too long Over the last six weeks, I have been surprised by the number of conversations that I have had with pastors regarding succession. While every conversation has been slightly different, they have all been similar to “I had a ten-year plan, but this […]
“You’re All Replaceable” -Jesus
OK… Jesus didn’t ever say that.But nonetheless, it’s true.It’s easy for those of us that are called to ministry to feel like we are indispensable. That is… if we didn’t do what we’re doing, it just wouldn’t get done.The Kingdom would be significantly worse without us. Right?(And hopefully, we’re all making advancements and our work […]
What Pastors Deserve
This morning I was reading a piece by Jason Brooks over at the John Maxwellwebsite that describes a leaders MOST DANGEROUS thought. Jason writes: In my role as the leader of a leadership organization, I spend a lot of time studying other leaders around the world—both past and present. In my studies, I typically look for two […]
Staying Humble. It’s Harder than it Seems.
When we believe our own press, we’re in trouble. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a growing number of church leaders meet their ultimate demise. Some have been very public and humiliating. Some have been for sexual or financial sins (or both), but there is a growing trend of pastors losing their jobs because […]
Four Questions Every Church Job Seeker Must Be Able to Answer in 2021
There is no doubt that the church landscape has shifted significantly in the past year. Probably more so than I’ve seen in my 30+ years of ministry. Most changes take time. Years. Decades. But COVID sent the church into a spiral of change… change that instead demanded turnaround of days, and sometimes (literally) hours to […]
When the Church Damages You
Ministry is crazy. Churches are crazy. And I love them both. But sometimes, usually at least once in your ministry career, you’ll find yourself at a really difficult point in your ministry. Things aren’t going well. There is conflict. It seems like you’re treading water, or worse yet, on a sinking ship. I found that […]
Pastors Never Lie on Their Resumes
In a recent survey of job seekers, 5% of people admitted to falsifying information on their resume. I find that interesting for a number of reasons. First of all, if someone lied on their resume, why would they answer your survey honestly? But I get ahead of myself. In our work at Chemistry Staffing, we […]