by Pastor Steve | Dec 4, 2017 | Journal
OK, this is hard for me. I’m a life-long Christian, and for most of that time, or at least much of that time, I’ve been a regular church-goer. And now I’m a pastor. I’ve always liked church. I like the history and tradition. I like the gravitas, and the songs, and the...
by Pastor Steve | Nov 28, 2017 | Journal
I was in Limestone, Maine, this weekend.Yeah, I was surprised, too.But Lisa had the long weekend off, and Paul has been missing his friends, and we’ve been missing our friends, too, so we made the drive up north for a few days.Nearly 30 years ago I got a cell phone....
by Pastor Steve | Nov 12, 2017 | Journal
It’s been the mantra of modern spirituality as long as I’ve been involved in modern spirituality. All through my local pastor preparations, throughout seminary, now in the Provisional Leadership Academy, it’s the same. It’s proclaimed in sermons, podcasts, Ted Talks,...
by Pastor Steve | Oct 27, 2017 | Journal
Not sure why this never really occurred to me before, but I was listening to a podcast about Christ calling the Disciples from a sermon series of Ginghamsburg Church, and the pastor pointed out something that should have been obvious. The Gospels list these accounts...
by Pastor Steve | Oct 16, 2017 | Journal
I had a beautiful moment in the coffee shop today. It was crowded, as it often is, and I was just sitting at my table drinking coffee and thinking about marketing problems. ‘Cause the Spirit exists even in the mundane.It’s important (to me at least) to note that I...
by Pastor Steve | Oct 8, 2017 | Journal
I was driving home to Bennington from Boston this morning. I was tired; yesterday was a long day and a late night. I didn’t feel like thinking, and so, though I’ve done this drive, or a variant of it, many times, I kicked on my GPS and let it talk me...
