Ministry Notes
Articles on best practices for chaplains, pastoral care, and leadership for simpler expressions of church communities.
- Shed the Past
- Guarding the Heart
- God’s Forgiveness
- Grief to Rejoicing
- Where Peace Begins
- Encouraging Creator
- Don’t Withhold
- Shared Burdens
- How We Speak
- Sharing Joy & Grief
- Word Power
- Awareness
- Facing the Unknown
- God’s Not Against You
- Being Intentional
- A Fulfilled Life
- Helped to Helper
- Seeking God
- Be Kind
- Hurtful Words
- Thinking Right
- Spiritual Investment
- God’s Plan
- Overwhelming Love
- Just Revenge
- Listening vs Talking
- Judging the Heart
- Grumbling
- Contentment
- Quiet Lives
- 5000+ Beach Weddings
- Healing Laughter
- True Religion
- Helping Others Make Sense of Traumatic Events
- Grief to Joy
- Deceased Visitors?
- Worry Wisely
- A World of Trouble
- Purpose of Life
- Letting Anxiety Go
- Trust the Lord
- The Name
- Breaking Family Cycles
- Miracles Take Initiative
- Living in Harmony
- Death is Not a Friend
- As Unique As You
- Enjoy Life
- Secret of Success
- Times of Trouble
- Love is the Fruit
- Good Forever
- Waiting to Die
- Love vs Fear
- Unintended Consequences
- Listen to Others
- Be Happy
- Getting Even
- Don’t Criticize
- Effective Communication
- Better in Eternity
- Personal Responsibility
- Freedom in Truth
- The Lord’s Leading
- Making Peace
- Plan of Redemption
- Cycle of Life
- Power of Patience
- Experience to Share
- Healing Words
- Stay in Your Lane
- Come Together
- Funeral Sermon
- Graveside Ceremony Helps
- Keep Your Peace
- A New Day
- Time Waits for No One
- Good Character
- If Intimidation Happens
- Self Care
- Memorial Day
- Dying Strong for Family
- Ask for More
- No Surprise at Trials
- God Sees
- Blessings of Faith
- Control Your Thoughts
- Keep it Simple
- Death is Certain
- The Hospice Chaplain
- The Neuroscience of Grieving
- The Soos Story
- A Cheerful Heart
- Death Anxiety and Caregivers
- The Durkac Story
- Don’t Die with a Full Heart
- Hospital Chaplain to Hospice Chaplain
- Dying, Death, and Beyond
- 12 Bible Promises to Live By
- Scripture for Ministry to the Grieving
- Aging Saints
- Timeline of Dispensational Pre-Trib Events
- 8 Scriptures to Know for Pastoral Hospital Visits
- Don’t Lose Your Peace
- Appointed Time to Die
- Life’s Standard of Truth
- Time to Start Thinking About Others?
- Grief is an Ocean
- Gladness of Heart
- Heaven is Not for Everyone
- Antichrist, Covenant, and Daniel 9:27
- Common Ground in Pre-Trib vs Post-Trib
- Why Seven Year Tribulation?
- Ways to Say Goodbye
- Grief Over Time
- Advance Directives for Medical Care
- Why Bad Things Happen
- John 13:13-17 – Is Foot Washing Necessary?
- Is Rudeness a Sign of the Times?
- Jimmy Buffett and the Obvious
- Things You Did At First
- Helping Children Grieve
- Question Yourself in Grief
- A Simpler Spiritual Assessment
- Hope Beyond Death
- CPR, DNR, and Letting Go
- A Pastor is a Shepherd
- Hospital Etiquette for Pastors
- Scripture for Hospital Visitation
- Our Blessed Hope
- When Your World Shatters
- Spiritual Crisis
- Grief Support Playlist
- When Someone is Dying
- No One Remembers
- How to Care for Your Spirit
- ABC’s of the Gospel
- Love Beyond Death
- Objectives & Strategies for Grievers
- Death Notification and Children
- Stages of Grief
- Types of Grief
- Styles of Grief
- Physician’s Guide to Death Notification
- The Three Angels of Revelation
- Theology of Pastoral Ministry
- Former SDA Facebook Groups
- Revelation 21-22 — Study Highlights
- Spiritual Self-Care?
- Revelation 19:11-20:15 — Study Highlights
- Church Purposes & Governing Values
- CrossHope Chapel
- Revelation 17:1-19:10 — Study Highlights
- Happy Independence Day
- Trials Common to Mankind
- Revelation 15-16 — Study Highlights
- Harmony With Others
- Happy Mother’s Day
- Revelation 14 — Study Highlights
- Matthew 12:40 and 3 Days in the Tomb?
- Revelation 13 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 12 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 8:6-11:19 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 7:1-8:5 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 6 — Study Highlights
- Love His Appearing
- Michael the Archangel, Jesus?
- Happy New Year!
- A Brief Reflection on Christmas
- End of Life Spiritual Strength
- Revelation 4-5 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 3 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 2 — Study Highlights
- Revelation 1 — Study Highlights
- Post Resurrection Appearances of Jesus
- Pandemic, Western Church, & Simpler Community
- Closing Scenes in Matthew
- 59 and Thinking
- Signs of the End
- Staying Focused on Jesus
- Workers in the Vineyard
- Revelation — Study Highlights
- Keep About Your Work
- After the Wedding and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- Reasons for Vow Renewals
- The Post-Trib Rapture: A Sequence of Events
- No Church in Revelation 4-21?
- Conflict Assessment Tool
- Bridal Reviews of my Officiating Services
- John 20:12 and The Easter Story
- On Evangelism, Witnessing, and The Great Commission
- When Organic Church Goes Bad
- Sand Ceremony Words
- Mark 16:18 and Handling Serpents
- Let’s Stop Fretting
- Isaiah 7:14 and The Virgin Birth?
- Missing Verses?
- Christians, Politics, and Satan’s Work
- Edith Waugh, Death, and Maranatha
- Revelation 13:11 and The United States of America?
- I Feel Like An Orphan
- NIV, ESV, and Translations
- When Brides Get Bamboozled
- God Knows, Even the Hairs of your Head
- Premarital Conflict Assessment
- Approaching the Apocalypse
- Popery, Antichrist, & Reformers
- Luke 16:19-31 and Story of Lazarus?
- The Mom I Knew
- Love in Marriage
- Irene H. Durkac
- Revelation 1:10 and The Lord’s Day?
- Matthew 24:34 and This Generation?
- Revelation 3:10 and Pre-Tribulation Proof?
- Revelation: Flow of History or For the Future?
- Dear Small Church Pastor
- The Lord Among the Churches
- Questions on Why Sin?
- Not Returning to Church After COVID-19?
- Leslie B. Waugh, Sr.
- What is the Beast and 666?
- Will a COVID Vaccine be the Mark of the Beast?
- Vaccine and The Mark of the Beast
- The Law of Moses?
- Payton is Graduating!
- 50 Bible Promises for your Problems
- No Official Church Membership?
- Will COVID-19 Change American Church?
- Coronavirus, Anxiety, and Hebrews 13:8
- Revelation: Shortly Come to Pass?
- The Post-Coronavirus Church
- 1 Samuel 17:11 and Fear in the Camp?
- 2 Timothy 1:7 and Spirit of Fear
- Psalm 91 and the Coronavirus?
- The Coronavirus and Psalm 91
- What to Say to a Suicide Survivor
- When is Sunset?
- Where at Beach?
- The Bible is…
- Facing Trials
- What About Us Old Guys?
- Covenant Marriage Ceremony?
- The End is Near
- What About Unclean Foods?
- Do You Have A Life Verse?
- John 10:10 and Political Contention
- Genesis 6:1-4 and Sons of God?
- 2 Peter 2:4 and Angels in Darkness?
- Marriage License Requirement & Information?
- Romans 11:26 and Spiritual Israel?
- Organic Pastor in Simple Church
- Asked to Officiate a Friend’s Ceremony?
- What Changed for Getting Married in Alabama?
- Wedding Ceremony YouTube Videos?
- Luke 23:43 and Today in Paradise?
- 10 Effects of Sin in Genesis 3
- Want to Write Your Wedding Vows?
- Louis S. Durkac
- Order of Vows and Wedding Ceremony?
- Blended Family Ideas for Beach Weddings?
- Beach Wedding Sand Ceremony?
- 1 Peter 3:7 and Weaker Vessel?
- Best Time to Start Beach Ceremony?
- Communion Service in Ceremony?
- Walk by Faith
- Lake of Fire and Loss of Consciousness?
- The Millennium: A Sequence of Events
- Matthew 10:28 and Destroying the Soul?
- Premarital Counseling?
- Creation Time and 1000 Year Days
- Days of Creation
- God Said
- Reasons for Vow Renewal Ceremonies?
- The Blessed Hope?
- The Schemes of the Devil?
- Amir Tsarfati and Michael the Archangel?
- Spinning, Redefining, and Hiding Truth
- “I will be with You”
- War in Heaven?
- The Grandma Story
- The Hyphenated Christian
- 2 Peter 2:6 and Hell Fire?
- 1 Timothy 2:12 and Women Teaching?
- 12 Statements of Advice to a New Pastor
- Advice to a Church Planter on a Theology of Pastoral Ministry
- The Sabbath as Seal of God?
- Sealing Work of the Holy Spirit
- The Seal of God?
- At The Last Day?
- Death in the Millennium?
- Walking in the World, but not as the World
- Symbols in the Bible
- Numbers in the Bible
- Sabbath = Messiah
- Why Clemson Won
- Top 5 Posts in 2018
- Top 10 Classic, Rock, Country, Reggae, Ska Songs In My Christmas Playlist
- My Top 25 Spotify Songs in 2018
- Why Not to Start a House Church
- Dear Step-Siblings