Microposts
I rolled into one of my favortie mite coffee shops today, The Station (in Flushing, MI), and it is hopping! There’s just something life giving about being in a place where are there conversations, laughter, and the gentle hum of life.
These days there’s so much real life, in person, doing all the things that I have struggled to create a rhythm to write and create.
One of my goals this week is to block time to create and publish.
Spending time at my favorite Flint area coffee shop today, The Station Coffee Co! If you’re around the area and want to connect, hit me up.
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!
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…
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
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!
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!
Scored some new vinyl today. What a beautiful album not just musically but also in physical presentation.
“No child is just a child. Each is a creature in whom God intends to do something glorious and great.”
Currently reading: Run with the Horses by Eugene H. Peterson 📚
Sitting in the garage with a pipe of really nice tobacco, a book that is blowing my mind, and watching a storm roll in?
This fantastic.
In August, Amy and I are participating in something called, The Mammoth March.
You hike 20 miles in 8 hours.
Training starts now.
My daughter’s sorority, Pi Beta Phi, is raising money for the Spartan Strong Fund. If you’ve wondered how you could help after the shooting at MSU, this is a tangible way to do so.
Currently reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport 📚
I’m going back through this book and creating a list of questions to process. As a pastor, I feel like I need deep work and somehow maintain connection via modern digital network tools.
Curious what others think…