I really need to be productive today. So, I’m starting with this list:
- Gym
- Emails and other communication
- Lunch
- Reading/studying
- Chorin’
Reward: Bowling with the fellas!
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I’ve been preaching at a quaint little Presbyterian Church in Flint the last few years as pulpit supply. I finally started recording and uploading the sermons. If that’s something you’re interested in, you can check them out here: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/…
If you’re in the Ypsilanti area, check out Tap Room Tuesday…
Chris Stapleton is built different…
That’s it.
That’s the post.
Consistency is the key. Down below 250lbs, that’s over 70lbs.
Not perfect.
Consistent.
This is a helpful and insightful thread by @timwilson@mastodon.world for those of us doing pastoral work in a context outside of the mainstream. mastodon.world
I’m beyond proud of this kid. He’s a college baseball player and he’s also demolishing it in the classroom. Tonight he was honored for making the Moot Court Nationals at LSU and inducted into the Pi Sigma Alpha Honors Fraternity. #notjustanathlete #smarterthanme
Golfing with my pops today was good for the soul. I’m so grateful for these days.
I get to play golf with my Dad today.
Can.
Not.
Wait.
This is the best perk of being a pastor, the flexibility to spend time in various ways. Tonight I will be bowling with men (and friends) from our faith community.
These are good days. 🏌️♂️🎳
Beginning a week from today I will be hosting a virtual book club on my Telegram channel. We will be reading and discussing Eugene Peterson’s “Leap Over a Wall: Earthly Spirituality for Everyday Christians.”
No meetings or anything like that. Just read and reflect as you go. One chapter a week. Share thoughts and respond to others as you feel comfortable.
The book: amzn.to/3GvoA6O
The channel: t.me/+vVZtv7kB…
The mornings are getting sunnier! I can’t wait to sit on the patio in the morning drinking coffee and reading. Soon!
Christ is risen!
This was a challenging and hope-filled Lenten devotional. I’m grateful for the time spent considering the deep and weighty things of Scripture these last forty days.
Finished reading: Wondrous Encounters by Richard Rohr 📚
“Jesus dies “for” us not in the sense of “in place of” but “in solidarity with.”” - Richard Rohr
This struck a chord with me.
I have been thinking a lot about the crucifixion and how cheap it often feels to me. The idea of it being nothing more than a payment for services rendered, so to speak, a mere transaction, has sat less well with me over the years.
Thinking of it in terms of Jesus dying in solidarity with us, changes the perspective a bit. Particularly as I connect this back to the Christmas idea of God with us in my mind.
Jesus’ death on the cross is the ultimate display of incarnation, the divine being in the flesh. We do not typically think of the Divine suffering and dying. Yet, here is Christ suffering and dying. Here is Christ demonstrating, in solidarity with us, what it is to suffer well and to die well.
His suffering was purposeful. His death was meaningful.
God dying to God’s self and God using that death to reconcile all of creation to the Creator.
This is indeed Good.
Amy and I had an absolutely marvelous time tonight! Our neighbors, Noah and Kandice, invited us and a few other neighbors to their home for the Passover Seder. It was just beautiful on every level. So thankful!