DAILY MINISTRY MINDSET

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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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! 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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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 GROUPEpisode is LivePublished: Dec. 15, 2021 @10AM EditUnpublishAdd a TranscriptGet episode better indexed by search engines.Add Chapter MarkersListeners can tap through & see what's coming up.Create a Visual SoundbiteBest way to share to social media for engagement.Share Episode On FacebookTwitterLinkedInMore OptionsEmail Link to EpisodeDirect Link to MP3Embed this ONE Episode

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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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

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 MarkOh! 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! 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 MarkHave 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/onthegoAND 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-greator 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

There is no shortage of poor leadership in church ministry.Just last month I had three separate leaders tell me how painful it was to see other pastors doing and saying damaging things. Here's how to quietly do better by seeking better counsel and walking away from arguments with other leaders.To your growth and joy! Pastor MarkHave 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/onthegoAND 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-greator 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

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 MarkHave 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/onthegoAND 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-greator 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 MarkHave 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/onthegoAND 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-greator 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 GROUPEpisode is LivePublished: Nov. 09, 2021 @ 9AM EditUnpublishAdd a TranscriptGet episode better indexed by search engines.Add Chapter MarkersListeners can tap through & see what's coming up.Create a Visual SoundbiteBest way to share to social media for engagement.Share Episode On FacebookTwitterLinkedInMore OptionsEmail Link to EpisodeDirect Link to MP3Embed this ONE EpisodeView Episode Stats

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 MarkHave 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/onthegoAND 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-greator 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!MarkOh! 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!MarkOh! 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

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!MarkOh! 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!MarkOh! 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!MarkOh! 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 you are way stronger than you think you are as a pastor, and how to use physical toughness and transfer it into mental toughness. Here's to your determination, confidence, grit, and passing pressure tests in ministry and life.Heart, MarkDon'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, MarkDon'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

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.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

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 MarkDon'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

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!MarkDon'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

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, MarkDon'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

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.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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, 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!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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, 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. 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 GROUPHeart, 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. 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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, 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. 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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, 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.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 GROUPHeart, Pastor Mark

Every leader who manages any complex organization faces overwhelm from the mini moving pieces of the machine. This is how to draw an arc over the machine and analyze the moving pieces, and to  remove yourself from the machinations so you can be the mechanic.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 GROUPHeart, 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!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 GROUPHeart, 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!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 GROUPHeart, Pastor Mark

How to notice and name the five core emotions before they lead to an emotional flood.  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 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 Markwww.lionpastor.com

How maps are only as good as their correspondence to reality, the time Michael Scott drove into a lake because he relied on an old gps map and not his eyes, and why we need adventurer pastors to be post-modern cartographers, charting what the cultural territory actually looks like today before planning another church or service or event or anything else...Visit me at lionpastor.com for more information on unique coaching experiences to help you recover, thrive, and kill if live.Heart! Pastor Mark

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

Just a little bonus encouragement because I love you all.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