The Dry Spell is Over

It is over in more than one way. Thank God we had a good long rain to soothe my languishing lawn. But, what I really mean is that I’ve not been motivated to write for some time now. I just haven’t been able to find the inspiration I’ve needed. Other than personal journalling, I’ve continued to update the church website Bible Blog about once a week, and have provided an article for the church bulletin each week, but that has been about all I've had the impetus to do.

Well that's over!

I decided to put into practice something I learned from bro. Dennis Jones, President of HCU. I took a class called Interpersonal Communication. I learned a ton of good things in that class, and have put many of them into practice. During one of the lessons bro. Jones spoke about his time spent in full time "meeting work" (i.e. preaching in gospel meetings or "revivals"). He told us that if we wanted to know what to preach in special sermons like those we should simply ask ourselves, if I only had "x" number of sermons left to preach, what would I say. Alternately it could be, if I only had one, two, three, so on, times to address the whole world, what would I say.

Well, near the end of last week, as I was journalling, I did that very thing. I came up with several things I would want to say If I only had so may opportunities left. In reality, I don't know how many opportunities I do have left; could be few or many. So, I'm going to make this my personal ministry project for the next space of time (Lord willing). I'll be writing about these very important things on this blog. I'll be making them into sermons, and/or Bible class lessons, and I might even podcast them if I decide to return to podcasting (other than the church site).

Anyway, I want to thank those of you who read, or will read this blog, and if the upcoming stuff is worth reading, please send a link to everyone you know.

Grace, mercy and peace,
---JLP