Threescore and Ten
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Threescore and Ten

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Threescore and Ten

About this book

Threescore and Ten is a book of reflections and remembrances of a country boy turned city pastor compiled throughout his seventieth year of life. These are the observations and opinions of a man who has been a preacher of the gospel for over fifty years, who became a widower during his seventieth year, and who had to alter and adjust his ministry far beyond his comfort zone because of the COVID pandemic. Travel with this pastor from the coast of Maine as he takes the reader through the dramatic and difficult changes that have engulfed Christianity in his lifetime, in ways not always to his liking! Within these pages, the reader will discover that this old-fashion man of the cloth believes that the philosophy of the Stranger of Galilee and the theology of Jesus of Nazareth are still relevant and could be prevalent again in the twenty-first century just like they were in the first century if only Christianity would return to the tenets and truths of the faith established by its founder, the Christ. Contained within this book is a lifetime of study, service, and supplications of a "nobody who has tried to tell everybody about somebody that can save anybody"! This is the prayer of this threescore and ten pastor heading for fourscore: "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away" (Ps 90: 10).

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Table of contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  3. PRELUDE: THREESCORE AND TEN
  4. 1. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
  5. 2. PROVERBS FOR SEVENTY YEARS OF LIVING
  6. 3. AN UNCHANGING MESSAGE FOR ALL THESE YEARS
  7. 4. JUST A SIMPLE COUNTRY PASTOR
  8. 5. STARTS AND STOPS AND STAYS
  9. 6. GREATNESS IS NOT GEOGRAPHICAL
  10. 7. PURPOSE-DRIVEN OR DIVINE-PURPOSE LIFE
  11. 8. THE EMERGING CHURCH OF THE 21ST CENTURY
  12. 9. NICOLAITANS: ALIVE AND WELL TODAY
  13. 10. THE MINISTRY TO A FEW
  14. 11. COSTLY GRACE
  15. 12. MORE PROVERBS FOR SEVENTY YEARS OF LIVING
  16. 13. A STRESS-FREE CHURCH IN A STRESSFUL TIME
  17. 14. JUST ANOTHER MEMBER?
  18. 15. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT MONEY IN SEVENTY YEARS
  19. 16. THE DANDELION DOCTRINE
  20. 17. A RELIGION OR THE RELIGION
  21. 18. THE COW PATH I NEVER FOLLOWED
  22. 19. CLIMBING THE WRONG WALL
  23. 20. IS THE CHURCH A BUSINESS?
  24. 21. SHIFTING AND DRIFTING
  25. 22. MY PERSONAL PROVERBS CONTINUE
  26. 23. TRENDISM AND TRENDISTS
  27. 24. WHAT TIME IS IT?
  28. 25. ELITIST AND ENTITLEMENTS IN THE FAITH
  29. 26. SOME DISCIPLES JUST STAY HOME
  30. 27. EAGLES DO NOT FLY IN FLOCKS
  31. 28. GOD’S HIGHWAY PROGRAM
  32. 29. IN TIMES LIKE THESE
  33. 30. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CHRISTIANITY IN MY LIFETIME?
  34. 31. A CAUSALITY OF THE CORONAVIRUS WHO NEVER HAD COVID-19
  35. 32. ADDING TO MY PERSONAL PROVERBS
  36. 33. MINISTRY
  37. 34. NOT AN IDEAL BUT A DIVINE REALITY
  38. 35. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN GOD TAKES AWAY YOUR HEALTH?
  39. 36. OF AND TO AND THROUGH AND TO JESUS CHRIST
  40. 37. THE EMMANUEL COMMUNITY
  41. 38. IGNORING THE PAST
  42. 39. EMBARRASSED BY ITS IMPLICATIONS
  43. 40. TRANSPARENCY IN CHRISTIANITY
  44. 41. WHAT A PREACHER SHOULD BE
  45. 42. A LIFETIME OF PROVERBS
  46. 43. THE STUB OF THE SWORD
  47. 44. THE MASTER’S MINORITY VERSUS THE MORAL MAJORITY
  48. 45. THE SCOURGE OF LEGALISM
  49. 46. ONE OF THOSE DAYS
  50. 47. INSTEAD OF INDIA
  51. 48. DISTURBERS AND DISRUPTERS
  52. 49. WHO IS QUALIFIED?
  53. 50. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?
  54. 51. BOWING OUT GLORIOUSLY
  55. 52. MORE PERSONAL PROVERBS
  56. 53. GET YOUR HEAD UP
  57. 54. WALKING THE WAVES
  58. 55. IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION?
  59. 56. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH
  60. 57. THE INTERNET GENERATION
  61. 58. A HOME RUN TO WIN THE GAME
  62. 59. HOW WILL THE LORD FIND YOU?
  63. 60. PERILOUS TIMES ARE HERE
  64. 61. THE DANGERS OF . . . ISMS
  65. 62. THE LAST OF THE PROVERBS
  66. 63. IT IS TIME
  67. 64. IF MY PEOPLE . . .
  68. 65. UNITY IN DIVERSITY
  69. 66. A FALLING AWAY FIRST, A DEPARTING FROM THE FAITH
  70. 67. THE NEON GODS
  71. 68. CONSUMERISM AND CHRISTIANITY
  72. 69. WHEN DID ACADEMICS REPLACE FAITH?
  73. 70. THE FINAL MAJOR CROSSROAD
  74. POSTLUDE: FOURSCORE