Welcome to my blog! These are the thoughts and musings of a pastor who, after a lot of years in ministry, believed he was retiring but then discovered that the word retirement does not appear in God's dictionary!
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Posted on 1 Jan 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
Miriam sat with two other women outside her small house and watched their children playing dustily together in the warm afternoon sun while they took a break from the daily chores of living a humble life in a small Judean... Read more...Posted on 21 Dec 2024 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
She knew the time was close. The birthing pains had started in the early evening and were beginning to come more frequently. Between spasms of pain the girl thought back over the events of the past year.It had all... Read more...Posted on 27 Nov 2024 in category Church by The Pensive Pastor
What is the goal of corporate church worship? I suggest... "To lead the people into the felt presence of God through their corporate worship of Him, thus releasing the Holy Spirit to do His work and His will... Read more...Posted on 26 Nov 2024 in category Bible by The Pensive Pastor
13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe... Read more...Posted on 25 Nov 2024 in category Bible by The Pensive Pastor
This post follows a previous one on dispensationalism, "Rapture, what rapture?!"Besides the classic "go-to" verse for "rapturists" - 1 Thessalonians 4:17 - a number of other popular verses have interpretations that are equally as valid, or moreso, than the... Read more...Posted on 24 Nov 2024 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
With his first shuddering breath came strange sensations... smells... sounds... feeling... a sense of colour and light... although there were as yet no words to describe these things.Something touched... soft and yielding yet persistent and nudging... and the man... Read more...