Hopefully making theology simpler to understand! (2 Corinthians 1:12)

Most of the time I can enter the title of a post before I begin to write it. In this case I don’t know what to call it. All I know to to do is start writing and let things fall into place.

That’s sort of where I am in life, right now; I don’t know where I am going, but I had to get going to find out.

Old News

By the time you read this post, someone in my former congregation will have read aloud my formal resignation as Pastor of Riverside Baptist Church – at least I hope they read it…all of it. It took me a couple of hours to craft it, all 1,026 words worth, and some of the words were painful to write. However, it had to be done.

Themes

In my resignation letter I focused on two main themes. First, it was important…

The following guest post was submitted by Matthew Malin, a young man who blogs over at Confessions: Bringing to light that which is hidden. As a matter of disclosure, I did not ask Matthew to write this, nor did I edit what he wrote. So… All I can say is that somebody’s evidently been around the block and knows what he’s talking about.

I’ve been a pastor’s child for 17 of the 23 years I’ve been on this earth. I’m not writing this article to tell you that it’s been completely easy. I’m also not here to inform you that it was hell on earth. It was neither easy nor hell but rather a comfortable middle, I suppose.

Out of the many years spent watching my mother and father traverse the rocky waters of ministry has come a longing for “outsiders” to know what it’s like. Sometimes, if I’m…

The celebrations are over; the children aren’t quite as nice as they were yesterday; the cards have been opened; all the masculine gifts now sit unwrapped…

It’s the day after Father’s Day.

Now, go be the kind of dad described in those cards.

Some of you are regular readers of Proverbial Thought, and for that I am truly grateful. However, I must apologize for the long break between posts.

Last week my family and I went on vacation to Washington, D.C. While we were there my computer was supposed to be getting cleaned and refreshed in time for my return. Unfortunately, it’s still not ready – it crashed while being worked on.

Fortunately for me, the crash happened while in the competent hands of technicians who could save everything and install a new hard drive. Had it happened just a week earlier, before they had been doing work on it, I would have been in deep, deep, doggie poo (that’s theological verbiage, so don’t worry).

Anyway, later this week I will be getting back to re-posting all the great thoughts written by those who made this project possible.

God bless!

Anthony