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Product: Clergy Spiritual Health: Journey to Wholeness (Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations: Book 8)

HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD?

Like stale breath, a stale spirit can be suffocating. When you take in a fresh breath of air that fills your lungs, you feel physically revitalized.

Learn how to take in God's breath and fill your soul. You will experience spiritual revitalization.

Here is a guidebook that can:

Help you evaluate your spiritual health,
offers a variety of ways to attune your ear to the Divine word,
Encourages a ceative use of the Sabbath to interrupt stress and gain fresh energy,
Provides a fresh perspective on how the Psalms can shape your prayer life,
Guides you in how to use words to shape new meaning in times of chaos,
Provides fun strategiews for yuour family to listen to God's call together, and
Enables congregations and judicatories to encourage both your and their spiritual renewal.

Clergy spiritual health offers us an opportunityu to refresh our spirits as clergy and church by breathing in God's Spirit.

ACT NOW AND OPEN YOURSELF TO THE WINDS OF THE SPIRIT THAT BLOWS WHERE IT WILL AND OFFERS NEW LIFE.

Product: Useful Wisdom: Letters to Young (and Not-So-Young) Ministers "We've got a list of questions, issues, stuff we're dealing with. We want your input, your thoughts on this stuff." Such were the origins of this little book. Two young clergy, early in their first call, imagined that I might have some useful wisdom to pass on based on my own years in ministry. Something like this was once standard preparation. Young people learned a profession like law, ministry, or medicine by apprenticing themselves to one seasoned in the practice. Not only has that way of learning largely vanished but we now live in times of increasing segregation and suspicion between different generations. Still, these two millennials bucked the trends. They thought they might have something to learn from an old boomer. The result is this collection of letters: personal, wry, direct, and honest. Full of both hope and realism about the church and ministry. This collection will be a welcome companion for young, and for many not so young, clergy trying to get a handle on ministry in the midst of a time that is full of change and challenge.

Product: The Emotionally Intelligent Pastor: A Guide for Clergy and Other Church Leaders Emotional Intelligence creates an enormous difference in a pastor’s life—making him or her more insightful into self and others and more masterful in managing relationships. As a result, highly emotionally intelligent pastors are both more effective (and satisfied) in their work and less likely to become a candidate for burn out. We all have emotional intelligence and the good news is that pastors can develop it further!
Jeannie Clarkson, PhD is a licensed psychologist and professional counselor, and the researcher behind a study linking emotional intelligence and performance-based self-esteem with burnout among Christian pastors. She is the founder of Christian Care Connection, a multi-staff professional counseling center in the greater Toledo, Ohio area.