Notable Voices and the Week in Review: April 21, 2018

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Notable Voices and the Week in Review: April 21, 2018

From Around the Web:

6 Ways to Avoid Owing Taxes Next Year — Art Rainer

Tax Day has come and gone. For many, yesterday was a painful experience as they realized they owed the government more than expected. The good news is that, a year from now, filling out your 2018 taxes does not have to result in a repeat performance.

Today is a great day to take a few steps in helping ensure that you will not get caught off guard next year.

Too Many Pastors Are ‘Digging Their Graves With Their Teeth’ — Facts & Trends

There’s a good reason for the spring in Jeremy Atwood’s step. The Glasgow, Kentucky, pastor has lost 240 pounds over the past two years on a quest to restore his physical and spiritual health. For Atwood, food had become a vice that was sapping his energy and hindering his ministry. Years of unchecked eating had brought him to the brink of 500 pounds.

4 Reasons Why Pastoral Honeymoons Are Shrinking — Eric Geiger

In the last several years, I have had many conversations with pastors who have expressed surprise over how short “the honeymoon” period was at their new church. At first I thought that maybe it was a few isolated cases, but I have been hearing it continually for several years. All of these pastors had served faithfully in other contexts, and in those other contexts experienced longer honeymoons, but not so this time around.

On Meetings that Should be Emails: How to Handle Time-Wasters — Joel Rainey

Ever heard “You don’t have to show up to every fight you are invited to”? Most pastors I know understand that not every intra-church battle is worth fighting. But few pastors live by a closely-related maxim: “You don’t have to grant every meeting requested of you.”

This Week at ThomRainer.com:

Avoiding the Church Comparison Trap

Comparing your church to another church can be one of the worst things you do as a church leader. Comparison for the sake of comparison is bad. Let me share a few thoughts about this issue to expand upon the concern…READ MORE