November 2024 – Jeffrey A. Nelson

Not Yet

I have several significant milestones coming up in the next few months. The first comes this week. November 28, 2004 was my first day at my first pastorate. I count it as the anniversary of my beginning full-time ministry. It also happened to be the first Sunday of Advent, so the beginning of that seasonContinue reading “Not Yet”

I’m Reading the Proof, to Proofread It

I last provided an update about my next nonfiction book, The Unintentional Interim, all the way back in June. If this is your first time hearing about it, this book will be about pastors who find themselves in a ministry situation going through a higher amount of transition than anticipated, thus becoming the de factoContinue reading “I’m Reading the Proof, to Proofread It”

Wineskins and Panic

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins,Continue reading “Wineskins and Panic”