My unexplained absence
I know I don’t really have many regular visitors to this blog, but for the few people who had expectations of me, I feel I owe you an explanation why this blog is currently comatose. I started this blog knowing that there is much I have to learn as a pastor and as such, I wanted to seek the insight and wisdom of fellow pastors. In addition, I was also interested in hearing insights/views from other Christians (Lutherans and non-Lutherans alike) as well as non-Christians. In the process, I wanted to avoid this blog becoming my own personal soapbox or gripe session for things I’m unhappy with. Having read another pastor’s blog post on pastor’s blogs (confused yet), I began to wonder if that’s what I was doing and if in fact it was appropriate for me to carry on the discussions I was in such a public forum and where the boundaries lie. I’m still trying to sort that all out. So where does that leave this little project? I guess I’m not sure. All I can say for now is feel free to check out the posts I’ve already listed and leave your comments/questions and subscribe to the RSS feed so that if/when I decide to start up a new post for discussion, you’ll be the first to know 
Soli Deo Gloria
just admit it, my awesome debate skills have you conflicted and confused…its ok….
JK JK JK
Get back to it soon, at least do some sermon outlines and such…you dont have to always do something personal
Rev. Matt Oxley aka the RagingRev said this on January 16, 2009 at 11:20 am
I normally don’t take up other people’s blog comments sections for something I could address on my own, but get back to blogging, man. Seriously. I discovered LCMS blogs to provide encouragement to Josh while he was in Iraq. There were times that he couldn’t access the posts, so I’d copy and paste them in e-mails for him.
At a minimum, sermon text files and recommended reading are always helpful. I can completely understand why some topics you may consider controversial, but I don’t think anything you have posted was covered by that one post your refer to.
Now, there are two huge traps you can fall into. One, discussing controversy and issues in your own perish, in particular where you have a disagreement with others. Two, offering pastoral care to someone who is not in your perish or community. Internet stalkers are bad.
Seriously, rethink this. It’s a great way to share Christ died for my sins.
Liz said this on January 17, 2009 at 9:23 am