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Has the heat of ministry left you spiritually dry? Are you feeling parched and weak, as if you’re withering away? That’s a common experience in the pastorate. The fast-paced, never-ending routine of meetings, management, classes, and counseling can hinder those in ministry from taking spiritual root in Christ. Many pastors find themselves barely able to maintain the status quo. Still, they feel...

heard, “If God has given you a call and you forsake that call for anything else, you’re going to live in life-long judgment.” When I first entered ministry as a youth pastor, I was filled with that idealism. I remember my first sermon and how Gail hugged me so tightly at the end of the evening. She was proud of me; I was proud of me. We saw only a wonderful future of doing God’s work. Then a few months later the sky began to fall. The father of one of the young people became disaffected by how
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