Posts with the tag “advent”

I know from talking to pastoral colleagues around the country.  It’s a difficult decision to know whether or not to have a gathered worship service on a Sunday which is also Christmas Day.Why?Well, be...  Read More

It is hard for me to fathom it.  Still, it is undeniably true.  I am making my way through year 70 of life.  Should the Lord permit, sometime next fall, I will fully own that milestone.Through seven d...  Read More

There are moments when, as a pastor, you could wish for all the world that the earth would open up beneath your feet and swallow you up instantaneously.   Self-inflicted, pastoral moments of extreme e...  Read More