The Divine Crash

Does youth ministry need more stuff? Or does youth ministry need better relationships.

After not preaching for two weeks, I am back to talk about Church. Next week we will be back to Jonah.

A prayer as I begin my last year of seminary.

This is a manuscript of the sermon I gave at my uncle’s memorial service. There is no podcast this week, they will resume next week.

I want to be a better pastor, this is my prayer for that.

I will be away from blogging for the next 7-10 days.  I am also not preaching so there will be no podcast updates.  On Thursday evening my uncle teddy passed away.  I loved him so much.  As a result I am very busy dealing with those details.  I will post more after things slow down. [...]

If you are a faithful reader of this site you know I am a United Methodist Pastor.  Right now I am in my second appointment but this is my first one that includes a house, called a parsonage.  Parsonage living is brand new for me.  I love what I do but this whole idea of [...]

So lately I have been thinking through this idea of what qualifies someone to be a pastor.  Is it good preaching?  Right morals?  The ability to delegate?  A desire to only work on Sundays (and 24/7 every other day).
As if the struggle to embody my calling is not enough an older man knocks on the [...]