COPIED about your pastor and what it’s like for her/ him —- THE PRICE OF BEING A PASTOR Being a Pastor is listed among the four most difficult professions in the United States because, a Pastor must be:•Preacher•Example•Counselor•Conference caller•Planner•Minister•Visionary•Director•Mentor•Friend•Reconciliador•Marriage counselor•Youth…

FOR ONE LAST TIME (…I think…): This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad. “Keep…

Steve Harper is a fellow Asburian you’ve heard me reference and quote and appreciate many times before. On this Aldersgate Day 2024, he writes this (and I’m happy to remember that I had the person named here in FootNote 3,…

REMINDER: This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad. “Keep it super simple,” said Mark…

NOTE: This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad. “Brevity is the soul of wit,”…

Traci Blackmon, colleague and online friend I’d love to hang out with IRL says this – – – Confession of a woman who preaches… This morning I was reading about the rare phenomena of the emergence of periodical cicadas. Apparently…

This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad. “Keep it simple, stupid” is how many…

This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band. This has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad. Seemingly traceable back to 1938 as “Keep It…

From a major mainline denominational seminary (not Methodist by any stretch of even my imagination) —- Right now, Christian communities across the globe face a significant challenge – a pastoral famine. This issue, perhaps unfamiliar to many, is the ever-growing…

You’ve may heard me say, “Words matter.” (Frequently followed by an invitation to a field trip; ask me about this.) Here’s Leonard Sweet from May 18, 2024 —- Language matters. That’s why if I hear that word “volunteer” one more…