PASTOR'S BLOG - While the wife's away
Day 23 – Try to keep it together and keep doing what you do
Angella is scheduled to arrive tomorrow (our Sunday), so I have decided to fast forward this blog to real time (remember it was on delay due to me not wanting to ruin her surprise visit to Jamaica). One more sleep to go!
I write law publications for a living, and that’s what I have been doing from home since 1995. Whilst I am very grateful it pays my bills, producing legal resources for lawyers is not my writing passion.
My writing passion is Christian books, articles and sermons. A great opportunity I’ve had here in New Zealand is writing short articles for the Christian section of the free weekend paper SunLive. Here’s one I had published. I hope it encourages you if you are prone to making excuses for not going to church:
Excuses, Excuses
Who hasn’t made excuses before about not going to church? There are some real doozies.
Sidney Laing, who’d heard a few whilst ministering in Ireland, wrote a fun and interesting satirical piece entitled ‘Ten Reasons Why I Never Wash’ in response to various excuses. The 10 he wrote were:
I was made to wash as a child … People who wash are hypocrites … Those who wash think they are cleaner than other people … There are so many different kinds of soap, I could never decide which one was right … I used to wash, but it got boring, so I stopped … I still wash on special occasions such as Christmas and Easter … None of my friends wash … I’m still young, when I’m older and a bit dirtier I might start washing … People who make soap are only after your money.
Some further ones might include, I’m too busy to wash. I feel out of place washing. I’m too dirty to wash. I can’t agree with everything that people who make soap believe.
As far as washing goes, these are laughable excuses, but some may think they are perfectly legitimate reasons for not attending church.
Today’s sermon was REST FOR YOUR SOULS. It was about how Christ said we could ALL have rest for our souls. Is that what you need?