I was in 7th grade, my family still working through a fresh series of transitions that included my father leaving his last settled pastorate (which I wrote about) and a move to a new community. It would be my third school system and, thankfully, the last one. But it was all still so raw andContinue reading “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Tarshish”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
A Prayer from Outside the Sheep Pen
based on Luke 15:1-10 Faithful God, I don’t know where I am. I thought that I knew the way. I was confident in my own sense of direction. But now I’m here, wherever “here” is. I thought that I could just wander until I saw something that I recognized, but that got me even moreContinue reading “A Prayer from Outside the Sheep Pen”
Facing the Roy Problem
Previously: Called to AFC Richmond, Just One of Eleven, The Christening of Nate the Great, Let’s Finally Talk About Rebecca, Oklahoma, Football is Life, Searched for a Fax Machine, Found a Woman Named Sassy, The Benefits of Curiosity Episode: “All Apologies” (Season 1, Episode 9) Doing the hard thing. Team captain Roy Kent has aContinue reading “Facing the Roy Problem”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 