Clergy Tales--Tails: Who Wags the Dog
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CX7PXD2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 441 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dr Puttswell said good insights. The author has captured some thoughtful insights into the struggles and challenges of pastoral ministry in an American parish. Compromise, challenge, decision, prayer, and much more are well represented. I am looking forward to future issues of the series.. I would like the next one. maurice mccutchan They were relatively short and to the point and yet very real with descriptions that let the reader feel the story.. "Steve McCutchan's "Clergy TalesTails: Who Wgs The Dog"" according to John Woodmansee, North Carolina Home Inspector #Steve McCutchan's "Clergy TalesTails: Who Wgs The Dog" John Woodmansee, North Carolina Home Inspector #4 I do like stories about real people doing their day-to-days things.Your story of Al and Carla, his friend from divinity school days, engaged me because it's filled with romantic sparkle. They want to be together in the best of waysvery present, very focused on one another, honest and intense. Their comments to each other are so incisive that they push to the very limits of empathy. Are we humans that capable of understanding each other without more stumbling and groping for the right ideas and words to understand what is happening with someone else? Maybe romantic energy helps.. . I do like stories about real people doing their day-to-days things.Your story of Al and Carla, his friend from divinity school days, engaged me because it's filled with romantic sparkle. They want to be together in the best of waysvery present, very focused on one another, honest and intense. Their comments to each other are so incisive that they push to the very limits of empathy. Are we humans that capable of understanding each other without more stumbling and groping for the right ideas and words to understand what is happening with someone else? Maybe romantic energy helps.
My intention is sharing these tales is to help people, clergy and lay, to recognize that pastors who continually confront events that stir emotions, both good and bad, in both the clergy and lay people are engaged in a profession that is taxing of their physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You rush to the family's side to offer comfort. You have a budget meeting that evening and you know a very generous contributor has died affecting the financial stability of the church. These volumes of Clergy Tales reveal the roller coaster life that clergy experience in responding to God's call. You leave for lunch with a couple interested in joining the church. At 5:30, as you leave the church for a quick bite before the budget meeting, you are stopped by a smiling couple who stopped to tell you that your wise counsel over the last several weeks has helped heal their marriage. Back at the church you talk to the cu