Previously: Benches One of my favorite books that I’ve read this year is Hell Is A World Without You by Jason Kirk. It chronicles the exploits of a group of evangelical teenagers in the early 2000s as they navigate faith issues, questions, and relationships. I recognize the experiences from my own brief stint in evangelicalContinue reading “Second Week of Advent: Pageant”
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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”
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”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 