Previously: Benches, Pageant, Logbook When I was a pastor, most of the month of December for me was about making sure that everyone else had a special and meaningful experience. I didn’t have to approach it primarily with that mindset, but that’s what I ended up doing. I tended to view the services, the music,Continue reading “Christmas Week: Home”
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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 