by Eddie Pipkin Image by jennycepeda from Pixabay I have a good friend who has been enduring a gauntlet of medical troubles since the last weeks of last year. He found himself in the hospital for weeks, dealing with a cascade of interconnected issues, and then when they finally got his infections under [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Csaba Nagy from Pixabay Welcome to 2026! We made it. If you have been reading this blog for a long time (thanks!), you’ll know that I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions. I’m more of an incremental change kind of guy. But it is important to have regularly [...]
by Eddie Pipkin We here at Excellence in Ministry Coaching would like to wish you a joyous Christmas with some solid rest and reflection once all the events are done and with some quality time with the people you love. I thought I would share with you a little nugget from five years ago, some [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Photo by Pipkin My son purchased an Advent calendar for us. It’s a Lego botanicals Advent calendar, and each day there is a decorative box that contains a bag of tiny plastic pieces and a slip of instructions for assembling them, resulting in a lovely flower or succulent. It’s fun. [...]
By Eddie Pipkin Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay I was on a cross-state, multi-day bike ride last week, and it was an excellent laboratory for appreciating thoughtful design. As I rode on numerous bike trails and made it safely across dozens of pedestrian crossings, there were several confounding examples of bad design, numerous [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image generated by Google Gemini All ministry folks everywhere are now rolling full force into the busy-busy season with a calendar loaded with events and with everyone churning away planning and executing performances, special gatherings, seasonal service opportunities, and worship offerings filled with visitors. It’s a lot! And we are [...]
by Eddie Pipkin I cannot for the life of me tear open the top of a reusable bag without mutilating it. I have never had this skill, the proficiency to rip things open along the dotted line. I destroyed every pasteboard milk carton at elementary school lunch. I mangled every tear-out test sheet. Even with [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay If you followed the ongoing nationwide recall of baby formula, piled on top of the interruption of SNAP benefits, you know that there was a crisis at hand for parents with limited resources. You may also have followed the news reports that one independent [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Ray_Shrewsberry from Pixabay We want to get better at everything we do, so we’re susceptible to grand plans for change. Audacious goals can fuel a surge of energy around new habits and revised approaches. But such a flurry of activity can flame out, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes with a [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by briankapeesh from Pixabay If you stayed up late to watch game three of this year’s World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays, you were in for a doozy. The contest tied a record by going for seven hours and lasting 18 innings. That’s [...]
