This time last year, I did not even have my promo for the early episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor in hand yet. That first short video announcing a new thing arrived while I was attending the American Academy of…
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3MMM | Episode 50: Embracing Joy
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who are alive.” ~Howard Thurman [1] What makes you come alive? What brings…
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3MMM | Episode 49: Boundaries
Boundaries can serve us well in the practice of ministry. When boundaries give clarity to relationships and prevent the abuse of power, they are worth maintaining. Boundaries can also become barriers in the work of ministry. How does this happen?…
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3MMM | Episode 48: Holy Fierceness
What does holy fierceness look like? seeking justice speaking prophetically asking the right questions at the right moments helping communities see and own their complicity in racist ideologies being bold, taking risks, speaking truth to power identifying discriminations giving thoughtful…
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3MMM | Episode 47: Congruence
“I think it’s sustaining to me to have some basic congruence between what I’m doing and what I think is important.” – Rebecca This week’s episode of 3MMM is a story about Rebecca.* She has some things to say about…
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3MMM | Episode 46: Knowledge Use
When I was in college and seminary, I took a lot of tests. I made really good grades on most of them. I memorized dates, names, cities, battles, theorems, species, genus, phylum, periodic tables, chemical compounds, and rules of grammar…
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