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Letters to a Young Pastor: Can Your Remove a Layer of Stress?

January 24, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Letters to a Young Pastor: Can Your Remove a Layer of Stress?

Dear ______: I totally get it: finding a way to keep muddling through in the midst of stress isn’t always the best answer. Sometimes it helps to find a way to actually remove a layer of stress. Can You Remove a Layer of Stress? There are, perhaps, two ways to approach this, on the timely-but-probably-horrible […]

Filed Under: Ministry, Prayer Tagged With: consolations and desolations, Examen, Examination of Conscience, Ignatius of Loyola, remove a layer of stress

Letters to a Young Pastor: Hearing God’s Side of the Conversation

August 6, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Letters to a Young Pastor: Hearing God’s Side of the Conversation

Dear ______: I’m glad you like the idea of finding guidance for your life in Scripture—where God has always spoken, God does speak still. But you are right: there is a learning curve. It takes a while to get the big picture of things in the Bible. You have to invest some time before it can […]

Filed Under: Ministry, Prayer, Saints Tagged With: Discerning the will of God, Hearing God's voice, Ignatius of Loyola, Prayer of the Senses

Spiritual Discernment: Meet St. Ignatius of Loyola

July 31, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 3 Comments

Spiritual Discernment: Meet St. Ignatius of Loyola

Number one on my list of Tough Guys for Jesus: St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556).  His leg was smashed by a cannon ball when he was a soldier. He endured surgery to set the bones — long before the day of anesthetics. Here’s where the tough guy points rack up: The bone didn’t set […]

Filed Under: Prayer, Saints, Theology Tagged With: Consolation, Desolation, Discernment of Spirits, Examen, Examination of Conscience, Ignatius of Loyola, Prayer

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