As recently mentioned, I’m about to release my next book, Four Weeks: Reflections for Advent. It’s the 2nd ebook I’ll release this year and the 6th book I’ve published overall (the others are here). All this means that I totally know all that being an author entails, right? Not really. I feel like I’m flyingContinue reading “Five Hard Truths About Being an Author”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks
For almost as long as I wrote at my former blog, I undertook a practice every Advent of writing a weekly reflection about the season. I always referred to these posts as “part diary, part devotional:” they’d usually be about my own experiences of the holidays in both life and ministry, and I’d often relateContinue reading “Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks”
Laughing Was Holy
I once told a story during a sermon about a little boy sitting in a sanctuary pew on a Sunday morning. He kept turning around in his seat and smiling at the people behind him. Eventually the boy’s mother leaned over and made him face the front, saying “Stop smiling, you’re in church!” There’s aContinue reading “Laughing Was Holy”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 