This Side of the Pulpit

Thoughts on Using a Prepared Sermon Series

I’m using a Lenten series this year written by Concordia Seminary President Dale Meyer and his homiletics students. I’ve only used a sermon series written by someone else a few times in my near-ten years of ministry, and those were for the Lenten “round-robin” services I’ve participated in from time to time. In fact, apart [...]

Sound Bite

I think Facebook and text messaging is ruinging ruining my blogging and thinking skills.
And typing skills.

Watching the Wheels on January 4

I have no New Year’s resolutions yet. Not at least expressed in any coherent, voiced way. Plenty of nebulous ideas, wish-dreams and desires. One of which is to get working out again. Too long away from Y at this point and the doctor is sceptical of my cholesterol level. At least Jack thinks I’m strong.
It [...]

Writing and Visiting Day

Back in my study at Church, taking my good friend Zithromax, feeling like I will live. Since I’m on the mend I will be visiting the hospitals later this morning. It’s been really weighing on me that I have several members I haven’t seen in nearly a week.
I’m blessed this year that my sermon load [...]

Another Class Finished

I finished my adult education class last night. The majority of the time we spent reading The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, a quite excellent book outlining what Confessional Lutheranism looks and feels like. I have some minor quibbles with the book as far as his take on Lutheranism and [...]

No Time Left for What?

My brother in Christ and Circuit neighbor Pr. Brown writes this about the need for devotion and meditation during busy seasons. I couldn’t agree more. At the seminary I heard an anecdote about Luther–the busier he was, the more he prayed and read Scripture. And Brown is correct in that the trick Satan plays is [...]

Silenced!

So I have been fighting off a cold, and Sunday awoke pretty froggy. Then it got much, much worse as the day wore on. My voice is gone, a nasty cough has arisen, and here I am, reduced to writing and semaphore. Thankfully I enjoy writing, but the semaphore is obnoxious.
Mikayla was sweet yesterday afternoon, [...]

A Semi-Return

I’m trying to get back to more regular blogging again. The remodel continues, but is finally shaping up. Dad is leaving tomorrow leaving us with plenty more to do–but all of it we can handle on our own. It will still be some weeks of nightly staining and finishing doors and drawer fronts, installing hinges, [...]

Checking In

Feasting, renovating, preaching, visiting, studying, translating, preparing, praying. Fathering, husbanding, building, destroying. Changes are being made.
Finishing a novel was not one of them, alas. I finished one last year in November. Have 30000 words of another, and 32000 of this one started November 1, but it wasn’t possible to finish. I have learned, now that [...]

Thanksgiving Pause

Dad cut off the end of his finger last week. He was working on cabinets for our kitchen, wearing gloves to beat the cold, when the end of the glove brushed the router bit, pulling his hand into it. If you know what router bits are, then you’ll know that it shreds wood; they don’t [...]

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