by Chris Maxwell | Jun 27, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From Pause for Pastors: Finding Still Waters in the Storm of Ministry. Think about your struggles and your successes. Think about your strengths and your weaknesses. Think about your victories and defeats. Think about Jesus entering a dialogue with you and healing you...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Pause for Pastors: Finding Still Waters in the Storm of Ministry. I’m typing these words after an interesting day. I spent the morning—and the last few days—in a denomination’s conference where leaders were elected and policies were presented. Honesty, I...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Pause for Moms: Finding Rest in a too Busy World. When the days are so hot and long, and the sun so bright, we dream of winter. Glancing forward, we miss the now. When we freeze waking up and going to sleep, and the ice covers the roads, we dream of...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Pause for Moms: Finding Rest in a too Busy World. You are you—no one else can be you. You are you—created in the image of God. You are you—still growing and being transformed as an apprentice of Christ. You are you—while learning from others, you aren’t...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Pause for Pastors: Finding Still Waters in the Storm of Ministry. Ministry is a strange collection of nouns and verbs. The people and places and things. The action. The dates and events and performances. The action. The buildings and songs and lights....
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 10, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces. I want to be a person living with joy amid the mysteries of life. I desire to be joyful in hope. I know this isn’t easy. It isn’t easy for me. But my friend David...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 6, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
These are questions included in various places in the book Equilibrium: 31 Ways to Stay Balanced on Life’s Uneven Surfaces. Why are you in such a hurry? What keeps you from resting and enjoying each moment? What are you hoping to prove? How can you change that...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 3, 2024 | Book Excerpts, Conversations
From the book “Fading” by Stephen R. Clark “I feel like the house is slipping away from me,” he complained one day, annoyed that things were gone or rearranged. Every time something vanished from the house, or was moved, it came closer to him. He felt it...
by Chris Maxwell | May 28, 2024 | Conversations
I enjoy conversations. I also enjoy letting you “listen in” to conversations I have with friends. Though most of you were not able to attend the Evangelical Press Association Convention in Lexington, KY, I want you to meet some of my friends I spent...
by Chris Maxwell | May 15, 2024 | Blog
For everything there is a season. The Roystonian is a restaurant where I’ve eaten often. Long ago. Recently. Regularly. Many memories of many meals on many mornings with many people through many seasons. Conversations. Laughter. Confessions. Stories. Ideas. Hopes....
