Jesus, pt 1

Which Jesus? I started Credo Fridays with the center of what I believe. God, part one, was how Jesus is my best understanding of God. The God who looks like Jesus, is the God I worship, the God I tell others about, the God who is the center of my heart, mind, soul and strength.

Entangled

One aspect of a pastor’s life that no one prepared me for was how entangled all my relationships would be because I am a pastor. The one piece of guidance I was given that I believe was intended to protect me from the natural entanglement of a pastor’s life: never be friends with people from

God pt 1

Like everything else in my life, my perception of God – who God is, what God’s like – was something that developed over time, through experiences, intentional and unplanned teaching and the magic of cultural osmosis. Early on, I had a concept of the Trinity that was close to the Shack long before the book

The Pool

The Pool is a metaphor for one of the most challenging aspects of pastoral ministry for me. You might choose the metaphor of a group hiking trip, a group skiing trip, a group rafting trip – anything that involves a group of people at a variety of stages of experience and knowledge where consequences are

Credo Fridays

A lot has changed in the last 37 years. That’s how long I’ve been following Jesus. Among the big things that have changed would have to be the things I believe. My credo. I’ll be doing “Credo Fridays” here on the blog where I will be unpacking the things I believe. Rich Mullins once sang,

A New Journey Begins

I came home from the Camino de Santiago with a few mandates. At the top of that list was to return to blogging. A subheading for blogging was a list of things I should write about – dangerous (for me) things. I’ve put starting this off for as long as I can. I’ll be posting