A Time to Reflect

I am nearing my 60th birthday. I started pastoring when I was nineteen. Lately I have been thinking much about my jouney and the life lessons learned, the experiences that have shaped me, the joys I have known, the fires through which I have passed, and the privilege I have enjoyed to be a pastor and preacher of the Word. I have spent my entire life as a pastor and as a teacher of pastors at both the seminary and university level. These reflections are written primarily for my children, but I pray that they may be an encouragemnet to other young pastors.