What Should a Pastor s Primary Passion Be? Joe McKeever joemckeever.com
A 10-year-old girl said something that has had me thinking about passion ever since.
That word “passion” gives us compassion, passive, dispassionate, and a host of related concepts. At its core, from the Latin, “passion” means “to suffer.” Its opposite, passive, or impassive, means “unfeeling.”
I was teaching cartooning to children in the afternoons following vacation Bible school. At one point, I had to take a phone call and turned the class over to my teenage granddaughter who was assisting me. Ten minutes later, I told the children about the call.
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The wedding ceremony is a great time – once in a lifetime for most people – for the pastor to get something across to two people in particular while hundreds are eavesdropping.
Not that they will remember a thing you say.
Friday, April 13, 1962, when Margaret and I stood at the altar, our pastor said some wonderful things that I found fascinating and inspiring. Alas, my mind retained his insightful words for exactly half an hour, so whatever he said is gone forever.
These days, someone is recording your wedding service. So, you’ll be able to listen later when life returns to normal.
Who Should We Turn to in a Crisis for Help? Dr. Michael A. Milton Author 2021 12 Mar
“I lift up my eyes to the hills from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” - Psalm 121:1-2
Psalm 121 is one of the most beloved Psalms in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The psalmist looks up to the hills the beauty of verdant foothills ascending and descending to the green valleys. The soul-satisfying visage stirs the psalmist unto his exuberant prose. Only God could create such beauty. There is nothing that humankind has conceived that can rival the beauty of God s creation. As he observes the splendor of creation, he asked himself the rhetorical question: from where will my help come? Of course, the answer is self-evident.