Expository Lutheran: Will not get bogged down

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Will not get bogged down

I promise, I won't get bogged down in Luke. If I had to do it over again, I would mix the three synoptics in somewhere else in this project, maybe not take them as they come. I feel like I keep treading the same water, didn't I already talk about that, and why yes I did. And as bad as it sounds, right now, I'm just trying to plow through, and that makes me feel guilty, so I get stuck. But I will get through. Just not this morning. I'm looking forward to John, and I'm really looking forward to Acts after that. have a Winkel meeting this morning (area pastors coming together) So I'm pressed for time. Going to read a Bo Giertz ordination sermon and call it good.

1 comment:

Scottydog said...: Don't feel bad about the bogged down feeling. The Gospels and Acts, although only 5 books are 60% of the NT (According to my Kindle edition). If you're reading it in Greek first, which I suspect you do, the feeling is even MORE understandable. My Greek is not so good, so struggling through Luke it seems like you get a breakthrough when you finally get to the nice easy to read John. Hang in there. You're doing good work - even if it seems like we're not reading!; November 13, 2012 at 10:52 AM

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My Morning Devotions, or Justification for a Pastor's Blog

I decided I need, maybe to post more often. My last year in seminary, I took a life saver of a class from Prof. Pless called the “Pastor’s Devotional Life.” In this class he suggested that a pastor’s devotions ought to be creative, in that something should be created out of them.I spend every morning in prayer and devotion, study. And I normally don’t look at the day to day of the office, Sermons, Bible Studies, visits, etc. until at the earliest mid morning. I find after spending time feeding myself from the green pasture of God’s word, I have a lot more with which to feed the sheep entrusted to me. These posts on this blog will be the fruits of my morning study, my breakfast from which I get my nourishment. I don’t want this to get complicated, it's breakfast not dinner. But I am willing to share my breakfast with you. Just thoughts that I have here and there as I read through the Greek New Testament, or the Book of Concord in German, or whatever else I happen to read in my morning devotions. Expect the musings to be eclectic.