This past week I went to a local pastor’s luncheon. It’s made up of some wonderful people, but I was reminded again of how alien I am to the world in which my local peers function. Sometimes I find it depressing. What reminded me of my outsider status this past week was the reports in…
Category: Pastoring
From the Garden to the City: Imagination
Note: If you’re interested in checking out From the Garden to the City before you buy the book – you can help unlock chapters by clicking here. When the assignments came out for this blog tour I have to confess that I saw my name next to “imagination” and did a little jig. As you…
A home for some wonderful saints
One of the blessing of pastoring at Central Baptist is the near by locale of our denomination’s retirement home, Riverview Estates. As a pastor, I’ve been to many retirement homes over the years, and Riverview remains the only home I’ve ministered in that I don’t leave depressed. The staff and residents work together to make…
Church of intensely laid-back whacky disciples
As last night’s deacons meeting our community garden was brought up. It’s produced a yield that we couldn’t have possible imagined, which has lead to the garden getting a tad over-run. It was brought up that the garden has been awesome, but we needed to lay out a plan to really put the “community” in…
Why are you following me?
Every now and again I’ll get a friend request, or a Twitter notification that I’m being followed, from someone whose outlook on life is so divergent from mine that causes me to get a bit nervous. I enjoy blogging and sharing ideas, and even being honestly disagreed with, but I’ve also been attacked by the…
Spirituality 101
The most memorable spiritual lesson I learned in college was actually taught to me by my astronomy professor, Dr. Bradstreet. For years the astronomy students at Eastern practiced the art of lugging telescopes into place, manually calibrating them, and learning how to keep a stellar object in the field of view so it could be…
