Pastoral Care

Make Time for Rest

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Philip Crouse Jr.

Episode 163: Pastor, Thank You

Pastors Center

Pastor, Pay Careful Attention to Yourself

Last week, my grandma died at the age of one hundred. During her final year, she could not care for herself in any meaningful way. Because she lived across the street from my dad, much of her personal care fell to him. It was a role he gladly accepted, but one that also took its toll on him. Much of his day revolved around when she needed medicine, food, and sleep.

Philip Crouse Jr.

5 Tips for Pastoral Care in an Intensive Care Unit

Death exists as an unnatural act for all human beings to endure. Perhaps the foreign nature of death in the created order causes many of us to either ignore its existence or become infatuated with its mystique. Death was not originally a part of God’s created fabric, but rather God created a world where death could come into existence depending upon humanity’s obedience (Genesis 2:15–17).

Jeremy Bell