Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone. Thanks for taking the Painfully Hopeful journey with me.

Radiant Damage

I’m not the biggest fan of the carol, “Silent Night.” I don’t hate it, there has always been a line in that carol which makes my head spin and my brain explode.

Pastoring During the Pandemic

Pastoring during the pandemic has been a challenge. And pastors have responded to this challenge in different ways.

The Weight

For the most part, I’ve managed the stress of the pandemic with a fair degree of success, but yesterday I felt the weight of it all.

Living my calling

I’ve been a pastor for just about twenty years. It kinda blows my mind.

In My Lane

There is a statment I’ll often make when I’m confronted by some technological problem which took me a bit to figure out. “I wonder what normal people do?” The answer is, often, “They call someone like me 1.” Then the pandemic washed over the country in March and I came to realize just how relevant…