It's Like Herding Cats

From It's Like Herding Cats - A Pastor's Life 98.170.219.187, you've come to my blog 6 times today. You came 5 times yesterday....

I posted this yesterday on Facebook: "If I were to write about the burdens of the preacher as I have experienced them and as I know ...

Began a teacher certification program a few weeks ago at Gulf Coast Community College. It's a program for people who did not originally...

I'm praying now in a silent sanctuary here at New Hope. Praying that God's Son will be lifted up so that everyone can see how good...

Seriously. It's Wednesday night and I'm tired, my throat's scratchy, and I'm on the ragged edge of crabbiness. Studied f...

Having started another educational program recently at a local community college, it's taking me a wee bit of time and a lot more effor...

Getting ready for tomorrow's worship by spending some time praying for my friends who are also pastors. I've been fortunate to estab...

I was cooking this afternoon and smiling thinking about the kids at New Hope tonight who make me feel like Bobby Flay at Wednesday night s...

7 My dear friends, I'm not writing anything new here. This is the oldest commandment in the book, and you've known it from day one....

This is the garden of Gethsemane. Olive trees thousands of years old frame a place of surpassing beauty, against which was placed the rawne...

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unsta...

Wow it's cold! Had a great morning at New Hope even though some of our folks were out sick. One of the real blessings in this New Ho...

The murder capital of the world. What comes to mind when you hear that? Baghdad? Kabul? Mumbai? What if I told you that it's New ...

Working on the "meat" in Sunday's sermon that focuses on where to put your fears in a time of change. Psalm 142 is such a gre...

Early on in the adventure called "following God's call", I was fortunate to be invited to preach in various churches around t...

Beginning the New Year is always interesting. Some years you get the benefit of people deciding that "this year I am going to attend c...

Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe, Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. There are great challenges ahead in 2011...

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and...

Following the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation, Clarence Jordan got into serious trouble with racists and members of the K...

Sitting here today thinking about all the blessings of this Christmas. I read today one writer's opinion that everyone's best Christ...