Distracted on Saturday depressed on Sunday

Preachers, teachers, and pastors often express a nearly universal weekend sentiment: they are distracted on Saturday and depressed on Sunday. The pre-preaching preparations start to settle over them by mid-afternoon on Saturday, and the post-preaching depressions start kicking in shortly after their services end on Sunday. This isn’t always the case of course. Indeed some of our Saturday nights are peaceful and fun, and some…

Getting quieter and more boring

I’ve noticed something about my personality lately. I’m getting a little quieter and a little more boring. At other times in my life this realization would have garnered some consternation and some possible insecurity. I might have tried to push back or compensate in some different ways. But not this time. This time it’s different. It’s by design. Over the past few months I’ve been…

Keep reading…keep reading (it will start to make sense)

If you’ve ever tried your hand at consistent Bible reading, you have no doubt encountered passages that baffled you. Either they were too complicated to easily understand or they left you with an unsettled feeling, wondering, “How could God have actually meant to say that? Certainly not all of the Bible sections are baffling or troubling, indeed much of the Bible is beautiful, comforting, and…