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Protecting Ourselves from Burnout
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,
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
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
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
Before You Go…
The questions you’d rather not ask yourself With all the change that has happened in churches over the last six months, I am having a number of conversations with pastors about transitioning to a new church, a new position, or into retirement. Before heading into a new role, we need
“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
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,
The Great ReShuffle of 2021
What I see happening A couple of weeks back I had the opportunity to join a regional church network to share a little bit of what I see happening in the year ahead. The short version is this: I believe that we are going to see a significant turnover in church
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
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,
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
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
Five Reasons You Might Not Be Hired
I recently had the opportunity to correspond with a group of pastors and church leaders about their past hiring decisions. Almost every church represented admitted to making at least one ‘bad hire’ in the past. As we discussed the reasons for these employees not working out long-term, there were a
Churches Can Once Again Reimburse Employee Health Care Costs
New rules issued by the US Department of Labor, US Department of Health and Human Services, and US Department of the Treasury in 2019 (collectively, the Departments) may fundamentally transform the way many employers assist employees with their health care costs.
This significant development will again allow employers to:
reimburse employees for some or all of the premium expenses they pay for an individual health insurance policy, and
use their funds to directly pay the premiums for individual health insurance policy covering an employee.
Employers commonly used these methods to provide health insurance for employees for over half a century, but they had been made unlawful by the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare).
Background
The Affordable Care Act contains several reforms of the insurance market (market reforms) that apply to group health plans, including the following:
Annual dollar limit prohibition. A group health plan may not establish any annual limit on the dollar amount of benefits for any individual.
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