For those of you who follow our church, you know that we lost our pastor in May.  I have been serving as Associate Pastor since my ordination in August of 2010.  I am now performing the duties of the pastor, but I am withholding my thoughts on what the permanency of that position means to me until the decision is final.

I haven’t been sharing anything here the last few weeks because I am not sure what direction this blog will take once my status at the church is determined.  I’ve been posting many of my old sermons here as podcasts.  It is my desire to share truth of God’s word as broadly as i can and to teach principles that will improve your life.  However, I now must take care that this doesn’t become a means of vane self-promotion or appear so to others.  My efforts must be focused on helping the church to achieve its mission, which I believe has been given to it by the Lord.  I don’t know that cross posting the sermons here aligns with that objective.  The possibility remains that I will not be given the job.  If that should be the case, I remain convinced that God will finish what He started.  It will come by some other means.

In either case I must evaluate what i am doing here.  If it truly can be made to serve as a source of inspiration and blessing to others, then I will most gladly keep it up if the Lord is willing.  If it is nothing more than a platform for vanity, then maybe it’s time for me to let it go,.  I confess to being rather attached to the domain.  I’ve had a web presence here since 1999 if memory serves.  Before that I had a page with my ISP account as many enthusiasts did at that time.  It began as a personal testimony and a collection of links to other sites that people who share my situation or interests might find useful.  That was before Google ruled the search world.  I learned the basics of HTML and coded it by hand.  Now I run everything from WordPress, manage two other sites and occasionally help out with a 4th.

This site may revert to little more than a parking space for information I might need to share with others for practical reasons.  It may become a conduit for other ministry efforts in which I have some involvement.  Or if the Lord should give me further inspiration it may remain as it is with occasional posts that I hope you will find of some value.  I may continue to cross post podcasts if that does not create a problem for anyone, or i may experiment with something different.  There is only so much time in a day, and based on what I’ve been able to do with it recently, I will truly require inspiration and direction if this is ever to become much more than it is now.