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Wanna sign up? (Wish I’d written this, but Mário de Andrade did) —- I counted my years and realised that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won…
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Yup, It’s Her.
Thankful to be married for 27 years today to Patty Kohne Fun Scheets, shown here at an event on 9.23.23 with one of her projects (“using your electronic medical record as a knowledge translation tool“). No idea why she ever…
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It’s 4 O’Clock Somewhere
With gratitude to Sky McCracken —- “At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.” – John Wesley, Journal, April 2, 1739
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BONUS BLOG: my Dad and my MIL
In high school I listened to my Dad and spent a summer taking Typing. As if I had a choice. “Typing’s the most helpful things I learned in school, ” he told me. I hated it. He was right. Years…
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NOT FOR PASTORS ONLY: “paying pastors 101”
Money. Church people. Pastors. Being an officially retired pastor, as the saying goes, “I don’t have a dog in this fight.” That’s all I’ll say about that. And you’ll never know how much I edited out between those two sentences.…
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Breathe. Please.
From ✍️: @livingfullaftered (Danielle Sherman-Lazar)📸: USA Today Sports “You guys really gotta stop asking athletes what’s next after they win a medal at the Olympics. Let us soak up the moment we’ve worked our whole lives for.” Simone Biles wrote…
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AUGUSTUFF: “Protestant Christianity in the US = a hollow tree”
He finds solace in his Protestant faith, reads the Bible and regularly goes to an Episcopalian church, even as he believes that Christianity is now divorced from the churches, which he says have become liberal and secularized. The “woke” political…
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NOT FOR PASTORS ONLY: threats to your ministry
Warren Latham, a/k/a to Wally when we were all a bit younger, wrote this earlier today and I’m honored to share it with you here — Yesterday I was writing another devotion on 3rd John. I ended with this word…
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AUGUSTUFF: here’s why He did that
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. — Christ Jesus, John 10:10, New International Version
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AUGUSTUFF: fancy means….
Bluesman extraordinaire John Lee Hooker was clear — Fancy chords don’t mean nothin’ if you ain’t got that beat. — As if that weren’t enough, he then went on to clarify — Throw the fancy chords away. — Rinse, repeat,…
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