by Steve Sheely | Feb 10, 2010 | Pastors Blog
As I post my columns from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette we have reached February 2010. I hear a lot of funny stories about pastors.  Like those hilarious baptism accidents, “colorful” mispronounced words, and the pastor who forgot to turn off his cordless microphone...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Steve Sheely | Jan 11, 2010 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog, Worldwide Candlelight Service
The older I get the more I move from frenetic, yet sleepy-faced kids in footsie pajamas tearing into packages to lonely people waiting desperately for December 26th.  From Epiphany 2010. It was December 1984. My first year at seminary. I had already developed the...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Steve Sheely | Nov 3, 2009 | Pastors Blog
Back in November 2009 this was simply an effort to turn what had become a political issue into a compassion issue. So you’re on the Titanic resting in your first-class cabin. The alarm bells ring. The ‘unsinkable’ luxury liner is taking on water. There are not enough...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Steve Sheely | Oct 3, 2009 | Pastors Blog
I wrote this in October 2009.  In hindsight, I should have put more emphasis on the significance of worshiping within God’s creation – especially in light of what the Western church has morphed into. But then I worry that there are already too few voices standing up...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Steve Sheely | Aug 12, 2009 | Pastors Blog
August 2009:  This is one of my favorite columns (perhaps because I felt like a real journalist). The feedback I received was interesting – apparently quite a few men want a Christian context for smashing someone’s face. I watched a lot of television as a child....				
					
						 
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