From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Facebook…..and pretty busy times.

by Rhett Smith on August 30, 2007

This is a very busy season for college ministry. Lots of schools are returning to session and so we have been gearing up. We sort of have a slow building wave. LMU, USC and a few other schools returned this week, and then at the end of September, UCLA will return with a bang, as [...]

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letting go

by Rhett Smith on August 24, 2007

I’m fascinated by the story of the potter and the clay in Jeremiah 18. There are so many things that we can learn from that story. I’ve blogger before about being shaped by the Potter and about six months ago I blogged about the limits and potential in being shaped in a post, Vocation and [...]

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“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”–Thomas More

by Rhett Smith on August 20, 2007

Home Chores, 1945, by Jacob Lawrence I’m definitely in the process of learning this truth. As a lot of you know who are parents, nothing can bring you to your knees quicker, or make life more simplistic than having a newborn around the house. My little daughter unknowingly has simplified my life very quickly. And [...]

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Pastoral burnout…some statistics

by Rhett Smith on August 14, 2007

Scot McKnight has a great post titled Burnout for Pastors, which are statistics he has reproduced from Pastors at Greater Risk, H B London, Jr., and Neil B Wiseman, Regal Books, © 2003 Though pastoral ministry is not the only vocation where burnout is present and where many of these statistics can be reproduced….I do [...]

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Formula for blogging success….and do I, or should I really care.

by Rhett Smith on August 13, 2007

I’ve been thinking about a lot of things recently. And one of the things I’ve been thinking about is blogging and how my blogging has changed. If you look at this site www.rhettsmith.com it will say that I posted my first blog on Dec. 17th. That is true, but I actually started experimenting with blogging [...]

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A new blog added to my reading list

by Rhett Smith on August 9, 2007

A blog that is new to me and that I have really enjoyed reading is that of

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Very True…

by Rhett Smith on August 7, 2007

“If you do not Sabbath, God will impose a Sabbath upon you.” Mark Driscoll in his post, Death by Ministry, Part 11 Isn’t that the truth! Being a new father is beginning to show me how whacked some of my priorities have been in my life. Sometimes I wonder if a child is also God’s [...]

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Dazed and Confused

by Rhett Smith on August 6, 2007

“Artist rendition of Rhett’s bloodshot eye after having no sleep in weeks with a newborn in the house” I’m so exhausted. Any really naive thoughts I had about trying to get a newborn on some schedule have been shattered. Any thoughts I had about trying to maintain some sort of normalcy have been shattered as [...]

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