The Healthy Hectic Home
Overview
A low-guilt guide to a healthy home.
This is the sixteenth volume of THE LEADERSHIP LIBRARY, a continuing series from LEADERSHIP, the practical journal for church leaders published by Christianity Today, Inc. Other volumes in the series include Well-Intentioned Dragons, Learning to Lead, and Being Holy, Being Human.
Top Highlights
“First, our home is an extension of our ministry, a place of ministry” (Page 59)
“A third strategy is to let the family know you’ve been thinking about them in your absence.” (Page 77)
“A fifth strategy is to control the telephone, that invader of family privacy.” (Page 78)
“The first strategy is to be sure that at the end of the day you bring something home: a healthy attitude. That can begin before you ever leave the church.” (Page 76)
“ But two things they share: a commitment to minister and a commitment to build a healthy home.” (Page 19)
Praise for the Print Edition
If the Christian Minister should be a model—a leader not a pointer—then The Healthy Hectic Home is required reading. It’s loaded with hands-on ideas and insights from today’s strugglers, not yesteryear’s shining saints. These courageous contemporaries drop the mask and show how the great balancing act—ministry and family—can be achieved without sacrificing either. An urgent assignment for every seminarian and pastor
—J. Allen Petersen Director, Family Concern
This book is full of transparent realism laced with practical suggestions and encouragement specially crafted for ministry families. It is a book of the long view. We learn from Luther, Wesley, and Thomas a Kempis as well as Chuck Swindoll and Eugene Peterson. This is not a “gosh, ain’t it awful” book but one that’s forward looking … full of optimism presented in a climate of believability.
—Jay Kesler President, Taylor University
Product Details
- Title: The Healthy Hectic Home
- Author: Marshall Shelley
- Publisher: CTI
- Publication Date: 1988
- Pages: 189
Marshall Shelley is editor-in-chief of Leadership Journal and editorial vice president of Christianity Today International (CTI). Shelley studied journalism at Bethel University and earned a Master of Divinity in theology from Denver Seminary where he subsequently served as a board member for nearly a decade. He has also studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College Graduate School, served as a board member for the American Tract Society, and held pastoral staff positions in his hometown of Denver, Colorado.
Marshall joined CTI after developing his journalistic skills at David C. Cook Publishing Company and The Denver Post. He is the author of several books including Well-Intentioned Dragons, several volumes in the Fresh Ideas series, the Library of Leadership Development, and the Library of Christian Leadership. He also served as general editor of The Quest Study Bible.
Shelley and his wife, Susan, live in Wheaton, Illinois, and have five children, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.
