The Almanac

  • Windfall

    Time to visit my financial planner to maximize my $600 windfall. Thankfully he reduced his fee to $700.

  • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools

    The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, unless the bad guy gets the drop on the good guy. Then choose Plan B. What? No Plan B? To enter a sports arena, security frisks fans for bottled water. To enter a school, a maniac strolls…

  • “Impervise!”

    Considering churches facing shortfalls of people and and resources, the church needs more leaders with the calling to Impervise. Impervise is a newly discovered spiritual gift that emerged by necessity in 2021, ranking right behind pastor, prophet, and teacher. A special thanks to Austin Ross and his welding Youtube channel for reminding me of expressions…

  • Breakthrough

    Manage to have a breakthrough this week rather than a breakdown. Change, our ever present companion Six months ago I started a new job as an insurance adjuster for the U.S.’s largest claim administrator. Sometimes I wonder if I had not followed the calling to serve as pastor of three churches, and executive pastor of…

  • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church

    Revelation 2:29 29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”  Over the past three years, Carol and I visited over 20 churches in the Verde Valley of Arizona. Conservative – liberal, Baptist-Lutheran, instrumental-noninstrumental, independent-denominational, contemporary-traditional. We learned that churches have acquired a progressive spiritual hearing loss. They have…

  • A Day to Vote

    For discussion see Voting Rights by State. Georgia gives hourly workers 2 hours unpaid time off to vote with the hours to be selected by the employer. Let’s do the math – A voting line with a six hour wait due to restrictions on early ballots, no water or food allowed, and loss of income…