Celebrating Birthdays

‘Tis the season… to celebrate birthdays.  We are in the season of Advent, in which we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.  As if that were not enough reason for me to celebrate, today (which will have passed by the time you read this) happens to be my thirty-first birthday.  If you will humor me, then, I will try not to draw too strong of a comparison between the two birthday boys.
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Installed…now what?

This past Sunday, we shared in a wonderful experience:  the installation of Mt. Haley’s new pastor, yours truly.  I’ve never been “installed” before, since this is the first church I’ve pastored.  From my perspective, it was a exciting, humbling, and beautiful time.  But now the question that begs to be asked is this:  Now what?

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