Pastor's duties

I am richly blessed as a pastor. I just got back from having breakfast with one of the men in the church and it was as much about his desire to encourage me as it was about my desire to impart some blessing to him. It was a great time. That notwithstanding there are days... my but there are days when I wonder about it. I don't question my call, I'm past that for now.
Mondays are usually the worst days of the week for me. I remember Joe Stowell (I think) saying that pastors suffer from Post-adrenaline-depression on Monday's and then citing a few studies to back it up. I think he's right. Sunday night I'm usually bushed. Monday I'm usually Blue and by Tuesday I'm feeling the pressure of next Sunday not to mention this Wednesday night and the scheduled and unscheduled visits and discipleship times.

One of the more difficult aspects of Pastoral ministry for me is trying to determine what to weigh my success or failure in the ministry against. What exactly is my yardstick?
Right on time here comes Dan Phillips With a most excellent series: The hardest aspect of pastoral ministry Addressing the exact problem.

1. (part one)

Usually when I think of Career days at School I think of doctors, lawyers, farmers or things like that.  How about pastor?  I was invited to do a career day presentation for the k-2 graders in my kids' school.  Why not. Just one question I guess, how do I explain to a bunch of kids how a pastor does his job?  Well how do you explain it to anyone?  I can't just tell a group of kids about funerals, board meetings and confrontations so what else can I tell them?

James Hamilton over at "for his reno

Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ κατʼ ἐπιταγὴν θεοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν καὶ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τῆς ἐλπίδος ἡμῶν