26Letters

Listen to Jeff and David discuss the Bishop’s visit, ice, DTV transition, imagination, among other stuff. You can listen from the ‘widget’, or from this link. Enjoy!

Listen as Jeff and Dave talk about what we should keep (treasure) or get rid of (trash) in church. Also listen as Jeff describes his favorite meal and why it makes him so sick.

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Wow. There hasn’t been a post on this site since August 30th! Sorry about that. You can hold Jeff personally responsible Well, even though there hasn’t been a post, Jeff and I have been…

Someone once told me that a pastor is the only person who has two hundred bosses. That is…if you serve a church with two hundred members. The larger the church, the more ‘bosses’ you…

Our life may be imprisoned in functional dispositions. They dim the vision of the spirit. Most harmful in this regard are those of ascendancy over others. To prove our functional…

Okay. I’ll admit it. I’m a pastor. It is what I do. It is who I am. I can’t get away from it. Every Monday morning I get up and I start the week doing the work of a pastor. I know I’m…

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a fan of the new cluster model being introduced in my conference. On the surface it seems a positive move, but I believe in practice it will not…

This is a Google Tech Talk by Marc Lesser. Even though he comes from a Zen background, there are still some excellent points, especially for those of us called to lead churches…

It was the last goodbye. The only thing was, I didn’t know it at the time. My father seemed like he was feeling better. It had been a week since we learned the news that he had cancer….

KOKOMO, Ind. — A pastor trying to demonstrate the concept of unity to his congregation broke his wrist when he accidentally drove a motorcycle off a 5-foot platform inside the church.

Kokomo…