Recently there has been a meme going around the internet that says, “If you live in a pastor’s home, you have the right to remain silent, because anything that you say or do may be used as a sermon illustration.” Most of the time I ask for permission if I’m using something Liz has said,…
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Posts from January 2019
This coming Sunday, we are going to read from Nehemiah 8, specifically a story that sounds a lot like University Lutheran on a Sunday. The background of the story is that the people of Israel have somehow lost the book of the Law, the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. Upon returning…
There’s a bad one liner about pastors that goes, “You’ve got a pretty easy job, you only work on Sunday mornings, heh heh heh…” Yeah, yeah. I’ve actually gone on record as saying that I would do Sundays for free, but it’s the rest of the stuff during the week that you pay me for.…
We thought we were going to have a week to 48 hours of notice. Jan and I were actually talking about it on Tuesday morning. Then the phone call came that afternoon/evening. They were going to be here in the morning. Yikes! 110 gorgeous garnet and gold chairs needed to be off loaded from a…
The Winters family is trekking northward for vacation, and we stopped overnight on the 31st in a hotel for a break from the road. As such, Cricket and I (Jay) got up around 6:30am on January 1st to go get some hotel breakfast. Due to my normal travel schedule with District and such, I’m no…