Broadway Christian Church, I have served as your Pastor for over a decade.
Hard to believe! Time flies! Etc.
One of the gifts and challenges of being a pastor is preparing and preaching a sermon. Most weeks I prepare a sermon from the Bible that I pray will be a message uniquely suited for you, the gathering of people that God has given me to shepherd.
Over the years there have been many times when some cultural event or political disruption happens and I feel a desire to offer some pastoral guidance. But, a sermon is not typically appropriate for that sort of guidance. As a preacher I am called to preach the text not respond to the winds and waves of world events. Of course, the events of our world find their way into sermons in one way or another, but they cannot set the the agenda for preaching.
…the events of our world find their way into sermons in one way or another, but they cannot set the agenda for preaching.
So, I am creating this online journal: Rod & Staff.
Rod & Staff will be a place for me to share with you, Broadway Christian Church, some of my own thoughts about cultural and political matters that would be out of place from the pulpit.
In a sermon I am doing my best to interpret Scripture, God’s Word, in a way that we can all hear and understand. Rod & Staff will be different. This will be a place for me to offer my own insights and opinions about specific cultural and political matters. Of course, I hope that these thoughts will be Biblically informed and motivated, but they should not be read as “Thus saith the Lord.”
Rather, this journal will be your pastor doing his best to offer his own thoughts and some guidance to you as you seek to follow Jesus along the Narrow Way in a world filled with many dangers, toils, and snares.
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