Wounded Warriors of the Cross
Pastoral and clergy mental health is a mostly ignored area, especially by those who live their lives as pastors in the clergy. The stigma of mental health within those who serve in the shadow of the cross is something that invokes the stigma of fear. Many of those in the clergy will choose to suffer in their despair rather than reaching out for help. Sometimes those suffering choose to wait until it's too late to get the real help that they need. At Wounded Warriors of the Cross our mission is to lift the stigma and the veil of silence that encompasses clergy mental health and assist those who suffer in silence. Wounded Warriors of the Cross is here to shed the light of Christ's love into those dark places.
Episodes
34 episodes
Episode 33: Confronting Social Isolation in the Ministry & Building a Support Network
In past episodes we have discussed the Four Horsemen of the Ministry: Isolation, Alienation, Division, and Loneliness, all of which can hurt or destroy your ministry and negatively effects your mental health and wellbeing. In this episode we wi...
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Episode 32: Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations: Pastor Jim Weist
The purpose of Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations is to discuss the joys, sorrows and tribulations of pastors serving their Call to the ministry while they live in the shadow of the Cross. The focus of this pastoral conversation is to...
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Episode 31: Being Accountable to Self
In the broken world that we live in personal responsibility seems to be an out of fashion concept that has been left behind in the dust of time. However, God’s Word calls us as His Church to be self-accountable and to take on personal responsib...
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Post: Episode 30: Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations: Pastor Martin Rich
The purpose of Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations is to discuss the joys, sorrows and tribulations of pastors serving their Call to the ministry while they live in the shadow of the Cross. The focus of these pastoral conversations is ...
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Episode 29: Power and Control and Who is Really in Charge
By nature, training, and everything else that goes in to being a pastor, we are all for the most part people-pleasers whether we like to admit it or not. People pleasing is part of the job we are Called to do by our Lord. However, at the same t...
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Episode 28: Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations: Pastor Aaron Kotila
The purpose of Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations is to discuss the joys, sorrows and tribulations of pastors serving their Call to the ministry while they live in the shadow of the Cross. The focus of these pastoral conversations is ...
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Episode 27: Living with the Fear of Change
Living in faith is living the continuous changes that our Lord places on the path before us. As people change and the fear of change is something we all live with. However, the question is do pastors and those living in the shadow of the cross ...
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Episode 26: Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversation – Pastor Jim Guffie
The purpose of Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations is to discuss the joys, sorrows and tribulations of pastors serving their Call to the ministry while they live in the shadow of the Cross. The focus of these pastoral conversations is ...
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Episode 25: Accepting Self, Engaging Self, and Embracing Failure
How do we as Christ’s church live our lives being compassionately assertive? How easy is it for us living in the shadow of the cross to fall to the passivity of falling to the fear of failure rather than rebellious in our faith trust in our Lor...
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Episode 24: Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversation – Pastor James Cox
The purpose of Rubber Meets the Road Pastoral Conversations is to discuss the joys, sorrows and tribulations of pastors serving their Call to the ministry while they live in the shadow of the Cross. The focus of these pastoral conversations is ...
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Episode 23: The Four Horsemen Revisited
In Episode two of our podcasts we discussed the Four Horsemen of the Ministry: Isolation, alienation, division, and loneliness. In this episode we will revisit that discussion through the lens of our conversation with Pastor Dennis Dufon and mo...
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Episode 22: Rubber meets the Road Pastoral Conversations: Pastor Dennis Dufon
The idiom "where the rubber meets the road" represents the point at which a theory or idea is put to the test in real-world situations. It refers to the moment when we move from planning or talking about something to actually doing it.
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Episode 4: Living life on the tightrope
Living in the shadow of the Cross we are Called by our Lord to walk that tightrope of all the needs that we are to accomplish. However, how often are our expectations of what we can do out of line and unbalanced with God’s expectations for us. ...
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Episode 21: The Art of Self-Compassion – Perfection in Imperfection
We are Called to serve in our Lord’s ministry not because of our perfections but because of our imperfections. However, how often don’t we find ourselves judging ourselves and condemning ourselves due to our imperfections using some unattainabl...
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Episode 20: Opening the Lines of Communication
Communication is an issue in the world where we live and within the Church itself. How we have learned to communicate and actively pursue our communication style might not be helping us deal with some big issues that we face within Christ’s Chu...
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Episode 19: Pastoral Respite care putting on the whole armor of God
Respite care is a temporary relief or a period of time that our Lord provides for us to refresh, rejuvenate, and invigorate His people so they can continue along the path God has led them. Though God appoints this divinely appointed interlude h...
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Episode 18: The sin of adultery Part 3 / Child Porn
Pornography is an ever-growing market in the world that we live in today, child pornography leads in this market. In our podcast we will discuss how this market is growing and what industry is helping this market grow. We also discuss how this ...
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Episode 17: The sin of adultery Part 2 / Pornography comes home
As our language becomes more fluid some words change while other words fall off and into a sort of antiquity. For many the word ‘adultery’ has taken much of this form of change. The problem is that God’s Word never changes, and God’s Sixth Comm...
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Episode 16: The sin of adultery Part 1
Sexual sins such as adultery and pornography are issues that are infecting Christ’s Church at greater numbers today then ever before. The increase of these numbers is based on the accessibility that technology has provided. In our podcast we wi...
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Episode 15: Peace in the Storm of Suicide
We live in a world where the value of human life has been diminished, a world where anger, hate, and indifference has been glorified. We live in a world where the glory that is Christ’s Church and the role and the authority of the office of the...
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Episode 14: Where we started
Join us for a more formal introduction to how this mission and ministry of Wounded Warriors of the Cross came to be, the whole history of your host. Join us also on our Facebook page in our private group discussion to share your thoughts ...
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Episode 13: The Safety Net that are Support Groups
As Christ’s Church we are not called to go it alone, we are called to work together as Christ’s Church. In our weakest times this is most important. As we close our series on substance use and abuse, we will be discussing support groups and how...
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Episode 12: Codependence – Caregiver or Caretaker
Codependency, or relationship addiction, is an excessive, all-consuming dependency on a specific relationship. Most codependent relationships involve some form of underlying problem, such as addiction, abuse, or mental illness. In healthy relat...
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Episode 11: What is a co-occurring mental disorder?
Mental health and wellness and substance abuse and addiction can and do often overlap. As those living in the ministry we may feel and believe that these co-occurring issues don’t pertain to us, but they do. In this episode in our series on add...
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