Ministry
Why I Won’t Take A Christmas Eve Offering
Over the past couple of weeks I have started looking ahead to 2012 on the calendar. This involves printing a hard copy "master" calendar for the church and keeping track of services, meetings, fellowships and other church activities. While I’m jumping forward, I am also polishing up our December calendar of Christmas events. This week [...]
E-Book Review: “Hanging Up the Leisure Suit”
What did your church do for Easter this year? Was it the same sort of program, if not the same program that they did last year? Does your midweek adult Bible study service look the same as it did fifteen, twenty, or thirty years ago? Don’t get me wrong, if something that your church does [...]
Why I Waited a Year for My First Vacation
This past Sunday I did something for the first time in over a year. I missed a Sunday at church. I’m not really sure when I last took Sunday off, even before we took our current pastoral position last August. But I do know that it was an awkward day for me. You might think [...]
