My mind goes off on odd tangents. I can’t help it, it’s the way I’m wired. It’s also my greatest assest when harnessed well so I don’t worry about it too much. This morning I had a sudden thought, “You know, if my life were a role-playing game, what would my class be?” This, of…
Category: Pastoring
September Almost Over..
This year I came to the conclusion that September was nothing more than “one long Monday.” I try to prepare for the coming fall over the course of the entire summer, and I do reasonably well. I know that many of the people I minister with try the same and they do reasonably well. The…
Thoughts…meet the weather…
It’s a melencholy day here in the Philly area, so I thought I’d write out some thought I’ve been thinking for a while which match the mood of the day. On Saturday I got to run a “Technology in Ministry” table at our annual session. All in all it was an enjoyable experience (with one…
Informative Conversation
This past Saturday I was manning the “Technology in Ministry” booth during ABCNJ’s annual session. I had many good conversations with folks about how technology can be used to connect people, and some conversations that left me kinda down. On the good side, people seemed to be genuinely happy to have the people from their…
Ocean City Baptism
Annual Session is over, phew. This year I got to baptize a member of our community which was great, but almost even better was watching an 89 year old woman wading into the surf assisted by a cane. Sweet.
Lecture’s over, the series begins…
Yesterday I did something that I’ve never done as a pastor, I lectured. I don’t really feel comfortable lecturing in a sermon, which I believe ought to be a meditation on Scripture, but we’re beginning a series that required people to have some “world behind the text” data before we got underway. By lecture I…
