Our congregation, thanks to the leadership of our adult education team, has been thinking and talking about wholesale revisions to our educational offerings for adults.
My dad is an expert in negotiation. Sadly, I'm not sure I learned much from him. I can't haggle for a lower price on a car. I can't negotiate a salary. My chief negotiating technique is the "cave in." Not good.
It's become a cliche in pastor circles. How hard the holidays are.
Sometimes cliches can make the reality rather than represent it, but in
this case, I do think the holidays are particularly challenging for most
pastors.
I shared today in church a few of parables from Matthew 13: mustard
seed, yeast, treasure, pearl. I tried to just tell them as stories: very
little editorial commentary or explanation, just the stories.
Two supporters of Occupy Atlanta
showed up at my church last Sunday. Now, I should say--they didn't come
to worship. They showed up just as I was locking the doors to go home,
slightly before two.
This week Mitt Romney offhandedly called himself part of the "middle class."
Mitt's net worth is estimated at $200 million. It seems clear that it
was a pretty innocuous attempt at solidarity by a super-rich guy with
"us" not-so-rich.
