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NEW SERIES: A PASTORATE DERAILED

Saturday, January 10. 2009

Today, I began a new series on my website, Reformedliving.org.  Entitled A Pastorate Derailed- painful lessons learned!  The first article is about Church Politics.  I think it could be very helpful to Pastors and churches everywhere.  I offer it with the hope and prayer it will prevent others from becoming derailed as I was. 


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LAST FIRST THINGS

Saturday, January 10. 2009


The Christian magazine I read and enjoy the most is usually First Things. It is intellectual and challenging while being very conservative and orthodox. It was started by Richard John Neuhaus who passed away this week. He has been a strong voice, speaking Truth to Power in Public Places for more than 35 years, starting out as a liberal Lutheran Pastor in the 60’s and becoming a conservative Roman Catholic Priest in later years. His section of the Monthly is called The Public Square, a survey of Religion, Culture and Public Life. It served as his Blog with personal observations and reviews about many things. I appreciated and admired him. May he rest in peace and may many rise up to continue his work. On a personal note, Fr Neuhaus was 72 and died of cancer. He had another bout with cancer 15 years ago. Another reminder to me to redeem my time. The last page of the current issue (which came to the house the day after he died) concludes with the thoughts he had during what turned out to be his last days. He was ready to pass on as well as to continue. He had much he hoped yet to do. He thanked those who were praying for Him and said he simply wanted God’s will to be done. That, he wrote, was not resignation to dying. God’s will for our lives is good and always the best for us. That is what he wanted. Asked how he would spend his time if he knew it was about over, he replied, “Pray and Plant trees”. A good motto. Think about it.


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