My conference trip “unofficially” began this afternoon when my wife and kids dropped me off at my friend Frank’s house so I could stay her over-night (Frank offered because he knows that getting up at 4 AM and having your wife drive both you and your two school-age Children to either the airport or a…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Getting ready to travel
Next week I’ll be heading to Green Lake, Wisconsin for a denominational pastor’s conference called, “Fanning the Flame.” I’m looking forward to it for a couple of reasons: This will actually mark the first time I get out of my time-zone. I get to hang out with my good friend and mentor, Frank Reeder (he…
My visit to MSNBC’s “Hardball”
Last week my mom invited me invited me to a taping of “Hardball with Chris Matthews” which was being staged at Villanova University (where she works). I figured it would be an interesting experience, John McCain was scheduled to be the guest, and it was actually the first time my immediate family has been together…
Genuinely Pleased
It’s rare that I finish a sermon a feel that I actually said what I meant to say. Preachers are their own worst critics, and the vacuous pleasantry “nice sermon, Pastor” doesn’t really give all that much feedback for me to work with. The general lack of emotion on the part of a good number…
Problems problems, do you see the problems?
Over Easter season the readings in the Lectionary all focus on the nature of the Christian life with reference to the resurrection as the fulfillment of God’s promises to his people. As a rule, these passages are a blast to preach. After all, if you can’t successfully preach the resurrection as being the very heart-beat…
Different strokes for different folks
I’ve never been part of a congregation that had a functioning prayer chain. Usually this was because the “phone tree” was hopelessly out of date, and even the numbers that were correct tended to direct prayer requests to /dev/null. In all these congregations the proposed “solution” to the problem of the non-functioning prayer chain was…
