Articles for tag: Setting Boundaries

February 8, 2018

Finding Joy in Marriage and Ministry

By David and Rachel Dummitt For the last 22 years, my wife, Rachel, has been my partner, best friend, and comrade-in-arms. When I was asked to write about experiencing lasting joy in marriage and ministry, I immediately thought of her and how she has helped to build both our home and our church with strength, grace, and joy. So for this issue, I asked Rachel to share her insights and wisdom. When Dave and I married, neither of us could have imagined the journey God had in store for us. While both of us had grown up in the

July 26, 2009

Christian Standard

Care & Counseling

Mad Church Disease

By Anne Jackson Certain internal factors can make us more at risk for becoming burned-out. Most of these are features we are born with. They reflect how God knit together the fibers of our being. And because they are fairly hard-wired, these characteristics aren”t easily changed, and that is OK. We have to accept the fact that, although these may sometimes seem like limitations, they are the very things that make us unique. Personality TypeÂ Most of us are familiar with type A and type B personality descriptors. Look at the table below. Which personality type do you lean toward?