Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

This morning, I rearranged white stuff. We only received about an inch of snow last night, which really is not a lot, but it still needed to be moved. Thus, right after I completed my time of Bible study and prayer, I went to the garage and began pushing the snowblower and the shovel. Not […]

A few years ago, I started using some “church management software” that I was, for several reasons, pretty excited about. First, it was web-based, so it was platform agnostic and allowed me to delegate tasks. Second, it was flexible, meaning that it was designed to allow me to track the data I wanted, the way […]

It is not Monday morning. It is Monday evening, but I still wanted to take some time today to touch base because it has been so long since I have written one of these! Between ministry and family obligations, this Christmas season has been a flurry of activity. Let me share some highlights! Our Advent […]

This past Wednesday, I received a copy of Thom Rainer’s latest book, Anatomy of a Revived Church (order your own copy from Amazon). I was looking forward to reading this book since I heard this past fall that it would be released. Simply put, I am a huge fan of Thom Rainer, and particularly of […]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote because those couple of weeks have been a whirlwind! So I thought I would take a moment today to catch up on a few things. On November 16, we held a Local Board of Administration meeting. In our denomination, the LBA is akin to the elder […]

In my previous post, I shared three things I learned from my high school math teacher and cross country/track coach, Bob Scott. But there was one other thing that I learned from Mr. Scott that I thought worthy of sharing. You see, Mr. Scott will probably never be a footnote in someone’s history book, let […]

Last night, I learned that Bob Scott passed away. In the history of the world, there have no doubt been countless men named Bob Scott, but there has only ever been one Bob Scott. As a husband and father, he was surely among the best. For those who wanted to learn, he was a superb […]

In my previous post, I explained how easy – and dangerous – it is for pastors to slide into cynicism. In that post, I observed that cynicism is the antithesis of hope, an extreme form of worry. In fact, I wrote, “Whereas doubt suggests that a thing might not happen, cynicism assumes that the thing […]

Last week was rather eventful. As many may know, I serve as president of the Lower Beaver Neighborhood Association. On Monday, the association held its October general meeting, during which our city councilman announced his intention to revisit the proposal to extend an area thoroughfare to the interstate north of us, cutting through the eastern […]

Well, I missed the morning by a few hours this week. It’s been one of those days where I haven’t had a lot of time to sit at my desk. And there is still much to do, so I will keep this brief. Last week, I had my first taste of a week without seminary […]