Articles for tag: Exhaustion

November 9, 2016

By Jim Tune The hardest part of life, one preacher said, is that it”s so daily. Every day the bed needs to be made. Breakfast needs to be cooked. Dishes, dusting, work, and sleep demand our attention every single day. The same with ministry. Many of our churches need hundreds of volunteers to operate every week. The numbers vary depending on the size of the church, but every church needs people to show up and do their job. There”s not much glory in showing up faithfully, but without it we”re sunk. We get tired, though. The thousandth time a husband

December 31, 2014

Christian Standard

Devotionals

The War on Sleep

By Jim Tune Have you ever heard people brag about how little sleep they require? An article in The Spectator magazine highlighted this problem in modern America: Our war on sleep is hard to miss. TV interviewers ask today”s hard driving achievers how long they sleep. . . . When the guest leaves, the interviewers bat the question around with each other, boasting about pulling “all nighters” or claiming “I”m OK with five,” revelling in a festival of one-down manship. If the standard recommendation of eight hours a night gets mentioned, it is treated with genial contempt. Napoleon, Florence Nightingale,

September 21, 2008

Christian Standard

Christian Living

The Assassin of the Headless Sprinting Chicken

By Jud Wilhite My friend, we”ll call him Matt, sits today in the coffee shop looking like he”s slept on the street for a few days. Maybe he has. No one around us has a clue that six months ago, Matt appeared to be a very with-it leader. Six months ago, he was a recognized for his accomplishments with magazine and cable news interviews. That was then; this is now. Today, he has bags under his brown eyes. His hair is ruffled by more than the wind from a weekend cruise. His clothes look like they”re circa 1990 Seattle warehouse