Matthew | June 30, 2011
Well Castle Rock is adding some new elders on July 10th. Fortunately, we have been meeting with them during this wait. This has been a wonderful process, and I had a friend tell me that by adding new elders, you always change the eldership. This is so true. In fact this is such the case, [...]
Matthew | June 29, 2011
I believe a lot of preachers feel over worked. I was reading Eugene Peterson autobiography recently, and he mentioned this problem. He felt that he was a hurried minister. It was not always so, but it happens more as a minister is a at a certain congregation. I have known of minister to leave good [...]
Matthew | June 23, 2011
I believe much of the conflict in the church is not from hardhearted people, but from people who have good intentions, but struggle with being a person of submission. Of course there are times that one should not submit, but in church hopefully these are rare cases. Often in church there are always numerous ideas and [...]
Matthew | June 22, 2011
So somehow I got into teaching the teens about missional theology this quarter. It was my fault, I volunteered. So the first class, I went in there with notes from the dissertation theology paper done for school. Maybe that was my first mistake, really, teaching teens about missional theology with a doctorate level paper. Definitely, [...]
Matthew | June 21, 2011
In this series on the parables, I have been applying some post-liberal perspectives in preaching these lessons. I believe that preacher’s make the mistakes of explaining the parable. Preachers will break down the parable into three points, which is probably one of the worst forms to use for a parable. Also, I like to note, [...]
Matthew | June 20, 2011
My dear mentor Burnice Wesbrooks always taught me to handle all situations in life with class. Sometimes this might be difficult, as you have the desire to “get people back” or to “get revenge” but one must fight this impulse. As a minister people will not always treat you right in your mind, and sometimes [...]
Matthew | June 16, 2011
I have experimented with Post Liberal preaching recently. It has been a interesting process. It is a wonderful style of preaching. I have read some works on this, but this book really seems to explain the process the best. It dives deep into post liberal theology that was processed by Hans Frei from Yale. His [...]
Matthew | June 15, 2011
This long process of adoption is coming to an end soon. Asher is officially ours, and we are suppose to go to China and get him at the end of July, perhaps early August. Sooner the better for us. There is a ton of paperwork to do for this adoption, and it never seems to [...]
Matthew | June 13, 2011
Last year by this time, I hiked three fourteeners. But with the huge amount of snow in the mountains this year, it has been delayed. Also, I had the parents down for two weeks. But tomorrow, Lord Willing, I will head back up into the mountain country. We are hiking Mt. Princeton, which is a [...]
Matthew | June 9, 2011
Last week I posted my expectations of an elder. Fortunately, the elder has got back to me on his expectations of the minister. This is awesome because once again the key to great relationships is knowing the expectations of the other party. So here is a wonderful list of expectations that an elder has of [...]
