If you’ve been following this blog series then you’re getting a good feel for how impactful my recent sabbatical was for me. It was kind of like the experience of realigning tires on a car. When your tires get out of alignment, you can still move forward but it’s not a smooth ride; and, sooner […]
Continuing the blog series on my month-long sabbatical, today I’ll share what I learned. If you’ve been following the series, you know that I tried to be very intentional about my time away from ministry. That intentionality served me well and allowed me to be open to new ideas, new lessons, and new observations. Here’s […]
On Monday I started a blog series about my recent month-long sabbatical. You can read the first part here. In this second installment of the series, I want to tell you what I did. Since I wanted to be very intentional with my time away from ministry, I structured my sabbatical around three agenda items: […]
I just finished a month-long sabbatical that was given to me by my Elders as both a reward and a necessity. It was a “reward” of appreciation for the service I have provided to our church family and it was a “necessity” because of the toll that service had taken on me physically, emotionally, mentally, […]
In the latest edition of The Christian Chronicle, there is a great interview about preaching that every preacher should read (especially you younger preachers out there). The interview is with David Wilson, who is the Senior Minister for Kings Church of Christ in Brooklyn, NY. Here’s a portion of the interview: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ As a preacher, […]
The God Who Yearns and Waits for Us by Walter Brueggemann We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness. We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able. We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you, and then we find ourselves among your people who are always […]
