August 1, 2013 6:00 am
Published by Brian Dodridge
After seven years of service at my church, I was granted a sabbatical leave. For those eight weeks, I scheduled activities, learning opportunities, rested, concentrated spiritual connection time, journaling, Christian counseling, and one writing project. The writing project was my theological, philosophical, and methodological construct for how a minister could leave a church in a God-honoring way. Primarily, this was... View Article
July 30, 2013 6:00 am
Published by Brian Dodridge
The morning of our fourth child’s birth, I was three weeks into a new city, new church, and new staff position. Before my wife went back for a C-section, three ministers from our new church came to pray with us. They said they would stay. I remember saying, “It’s going to be fine. You all go home, and I’ll update... View Article
July 25, 2013 6:00 am
Published by Brian Dodridge
Goals are great. Often though, they are only for the idealist. If you want to make them viable consistently, then you have to keep them in front of you. Knowing that well-intentioned goals leak over time in the crucible of leadership, I developed a weekly discipline to keep them in front of me. Our church has an online database for... View Article
