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Happy Christmas!

Posted in Christian Year, George Herbert on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Two poems by Herbert:
Christmas (I)
After all pleasures as I rid one day,
My horse and I, both tired, body and mind,
With full cry of affections, quite astray;
I took up the next inn I could find.
There when I came, whom found I but my dear,
My dearest Lord, expecting till the grief
Of pleasures brought me to Him, ready [...]

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A Personal Cloud of Witnesses

Posted in Pastoring on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Peter Mead on his blog Biblical Preaching had a good idea for considering those God has given to nurture us.  Check it out here.

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Quote for the Day:

Posted in Incarnation, Religion, quotes on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Maker of the sun,  he is made under the sun.  In the Father he remains, from his mother he goes forth.  Creator of heaven and earth, he was born on earth under heaven.  Unspeakably wise, he is wisely speechless.  Filling the world, he lies in a manger.  Ruler of the starts, he nurses at his [...]

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Tools of the Trade: Todoist

Posted in PastorHack, Resources, productivity on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Todoist is an online todo or task list utility. I tried several such sites because I wanted something I could access from my laptop or desktop without having to sync the two. I also like knowing it’s backed up elsewhere.
There are several additional features that makes Todoist really useful: gmail [...]

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Quote for the Day:

Posted in Religion, quotes on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
–  Benjamin Franklin

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Cool

Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Ran into this this evening.

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CHAP. XXIII. The Parson’s Completenesse.

Posted in George Herbert, Pastoring on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

THe Countrey Parson desires to be all to his Parish, and not onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also, and a Phisician. Therefore hee endures not that any of his Flock should go to Law; but in any Controversie, that they should resort to him as their Judge. To this end, he hath gotten to [...]

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Quotes on preaching

Posted in preaching, quotes on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Out of the miry clay had some great quotes on preaching today.

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It would have made a great song!

Posted in Funny, Pastoring, Rural Life on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We gather, as many churches do for a devotional reading and song before we divide up into our Sunday school classes. It’s led by a layman so I was sitting in a pew and just before the the service started a wave sorta rose through the pews (back to front instead of side to [...]

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Quote for the Day:

Posted in productivity on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.
- Richard [...]

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