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I have tried my hand at a few blogs but they were all too specialized. I decided I wanted a place to say whatever I wanted to say about things that interest me. My interest are mostly pastoral and theological. But, some cultural and denominational events catch my attention as well.
Sometimes I am like Jonah. He found a plant outside of Nineveh waiting for the fireworks to start. Jonah was a hard headed kind of guy. When God called him to preach at Nineveh, he run in the other direction. And of course, the big fish swallowed him. Still being hard headed, he went but he didn’t like it. So, he preached, crawled up under a vine and waited for God to bring fire from heaven. Instead the people repented and a worm ate his vine and he got rather hot.
On the other hand, the prophet Micah wrote, Micah 4:4 “Each of them will sit under his vine And under his fig tree, With no one to make them afraid, For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.” It was a picture of perfect peace.
Being a southern boy, I am most familar with the Kudzu vine. It has vitality, it grows anywhere. I will sit under the Kudzu. Will it be a shade while I wait for the fire works? Or, will it be a place of peace where I sit with friends and drink coffee and laugh? I have to warn you, it depends on how I wake up in the morning. Hopefully, it will be a little of both.
I guess I should tell you who I am. I am Randy and I have been the pastor of Trinity Baptist Church since 1988. My seminary training was in systematic theology. I am interested in theology for the church, theology that can be preached, theology that strengthens the believers and keeps to Body of Christ from being poisoned.
Scripture says that life is like a vapor. It is my hope that in the time God has alloted to me, through the power of the Holy Spirit, I leave his Church in better shape than as I found it. May God bless everyone whom God calls to this sacred office and may we all built up the Body of Christ.
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