Curating reflections on Christian leadership, spiritual vitality, and cultural engagement. Like fragments of tile or glass, each beautiful and broken on its own, the offerings in this space converge to form a design more beautiful than the sum of its parts.
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Grief is hard. But running from it is harder because when you run from the pain, you run from the healing, too.
I encourage you to think about the ways you’ve responded in leadership and be open to the ways God wants to lead you in His anointing.
One of the most disorienting realities of life is the way God brings good out of circumstances that appear anything but. Gets me nearly every time.
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Our people, our ministries and our families have specific needs, but sometimes we don’t do a great job at identifying and ministering to those needs. So what can we do about it?
The life of the apostle Peter was preserved against all odds, and once again the church witnessed the power found in prayer.
When I’m struggling with what seem to be God’s ideas, like Habakkuk did, God’s faithful response is always good news, even if it may not look like it at the time.
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Grief is hard. But running from it is harder because when you run from the pain, you run from the healing, too.
I encourage you to think about the ways you’ve responded in leadership and be open to the ways God wants to lead you in His anointing.
One of the most disorienting realities of life is the way God brings good out of circumstances that appear anything but. Gets me nearly every time.
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We want our kids to have opportunities to grow in extracurricular activities and to enjoy them, while also developing and maintaining a healthy faith.
The Church is called to be the people united through the Spirit to bring about unity, peace, and reconciliation in a divided world.
If we truly believe that the Gospel of Jesus is good news, then it only makes sense that we would orient our lives in such a way as to see the world and others through this lens.
Chaplaincy Resources
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I had not yet fully internalized just how beautifully diverse Muslims in the United States truly are, and how this immense diversity serves as a rich opportunity for a chaplain’s clinical growth.
Latino cultural norms often encourage open emotional expression. Chaplains can support families by offering calm presence, providing space to openly grieve, and validating these expressions.
The realities of history mean that, when a chaplain enters the African American patient’s room, there is often an unspoken wall already standing—not built from disrespect, but from a lack of trust.
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The Siburt Institute’s values emerge from our commitment to faithfully embody the partnership in Jesus’s ministry to the Father by the Holy Spirit for the sake of the church’s witness to the world.
Such a path of discovery sits at odds with usual practice. Congregational leaders may be tempted to play out a hunch, try what some other church has done, or impose their own will on a congregation. Yet Paul’s prayer leads contemporary leaders to a different kind of practice.
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Our people, our ministries and our families have specific needs, but sometimes we don’t do a great job at identifying and ministering to those needs. So what can we do about it?
The Siburt Institute’s values emerge from our commitment to faithfully embody the partnership in Jesus’s ministry to the Father by the Holy Spirit for the sake of the church’s witness to the world.
We need help and support, and that support can come from our brothers and sisters who are no longer living, by means of their writings and their example.
Such work—teaching, proclaiming, healing—is the work of Jesus’s ministry. And it is the work of Jesus’s people. Whether those believers are found in the ancient city of Antioch or in towns and cities across this land today, the work is the same.