Steve Brown Etc.

Steve Brown Etc. is a nationally syndicated talk show featuring discussion, comedy, and interviews designed to explore what it’s like to live out Steve Brown’s teaching on grace and freedom. Visit SteveBrownEtc.com to get past programs, download interviews, read Steve’s blog, hear comedy bits, and a whole lot more!

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Pooped Pastors

At any given time, 75% of pastors in America want to quit. 1,500 pastors leave their assignments each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout or contention within their local congregations. 70% of pastors do not have a close friend with whom they can openly share their struggles.*

Chances are that your pastor is pooped. And if you are a pastor...well...you know. It’s a uniquely tough job, and Steve has just launched an equally unique website to help.

Now there’s a safe place of grace and help for the shepherds of God’s flock. Stop by PoopedPastors.com and spread the word!

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* Statistics from Focus on the Family, Fuller Institute of Church Growth and Church Resource Ministries

Christmas Magazine: I Love You. Is That Okay? -God

Do you sometimes have trouble deciding between what is important and what isn't? I think I could make that decision if everybody would just leave me alone...but they won't.

The Christmas season is a time when a lot of people are trying to tell us what is important and valuable. They put up Christmas trees in October. They started playing Christmas music in November. We are inundated by those who say... Our laptops are out of date. Our clothes are old fashioned. Our friends and family would love us more if we bought them better (and more expensive) stuff for Christmas.

This isn't just another rant on the evils of the commercialism of Christmas...

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Steve's Letter: Dear God of second chances, it's me...again.

January 1 is traditionally the time when we get to start all over again. We wipe the slate clean, as it were, and get a new one. Mark Twain said, "Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community."

Well, okay, but I'm cynical enough to believe that the cigars will be smoked in secret, the drinks consumed in private and the oaths uttered only under one's breath...until it's safe to assume that everybody has forgotten the resolutions one made.

New Year's resolutions are dangerous not because it's dangerous or wrong to have good intentions, to try to do better, or to try to remedy the failures and sins of the old year. Resolutions are, of course, dangerous not so much because we fail to keep them. Resolutions are dangerous because when we don't keep them, we pretend we have.

Peter was the master of resolutions and we can learn a lot from him...

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