Dear Subscribers to “In the Meantime…”, I wanted to write a short note to say several things: First and foremost, thank you. Thank you for reading, for subscribing, for following the journey I’ve been on with this blog and for all your comments and various words of encouragement. You make it worth writing every day. Second, when I put a video in my post, I also place a link under the video to the actual page where the video can be found on the website as I realize the posted videos cannot always be viewed depending on the browsers and email provider in use. But here’s the thing: although I almost never forgot to...

After a three month sabbatical from this blog, I’m eager to be back. The time away was very helpful with navigating a move and the need to make some sustained progress on a few larger writing projects, but I was surprised at how much I missed the regular discipline of bible study and reflecting on faith and life that this blog has provided me. So tomorrow I’ll start posting daily bible devotions in the morning and share thoughts and resources on connecting faith and life later each day. As I’ve been thinking about jumping back into this daily routine, I’ve realized there are a few things I’d like to focus on a bit more in the...

I started this blog six months ago as something of an experiment to see if I (and by extension others) can discover how to write on matters of faith and daily life in a way that would be helpful and even (on a good day!) interesting to everyday Christians. Five years earlier I had led the team that developed WorkingPreacher.org, a site devoted to preaching resources. Since it’s launch it’s been a huge success, garnering well over a quarter million hits a month. But as I always tell folks, Working Preacher is the “low hanging fruit.” Preachers have to preach sermons each and so they know they can use good resources that are readily...