by FBC Editor | Jan 3, 2022 | Pastoral Ponderings
German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived 39 years, the last 12 under Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Nazis murdered Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945, as an anti-Nazi dissident and participant in a plot to assassinate Hitler. During the...
by FBC Editor | Dec 23, 2021 | Pastoral Ponderings
Dear friend, This Advent, with our Christmas Eve Communion service in mind, I’ve pondered Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco, “The Last Supper.” I remember a joke I once saw on the internet. Jesus enters a restaurant with the twelve and says to the host, “A...
by FBC Editor | Dec 17, 2021 | Pastoral Ponderings
A few years ago, I read The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age by Lutheran Seminary professor of leadership Dwight J. Zscheile. Zscheile wrote this book in 2014. He couldn’t have known what was coming six years later, but his book written...
by FBC Editor | Dec 17, 2021 | Pastoral Ponderings
Recently, I was in Corbin. My colleague Alex Lockridge, pastor of the First Baptist Church there, invited me up for a meeting. After the meeting, Alex and I sat in his office and talked over coffee. Kids. School. Homelife. Pastoring. Our conversation stopped skipping...
by FBC Editor | Dec 17, 2021 | Pastoral Ponderings
It’s Advent again. I’m reading a few different devotional books geared toward the season. One of them is a book I probably wouldn’t have picked up had I seen it on the shelf at Barnes and Noble (thank you for the gift, Missy Bevins!). I’ve just begun...
