Formation @ Home wraps up


Yesterday marked the last Sunday in our church’s Formation @ Home series.

It was a profound experience for me.  It’s the first time I’ve been able to design an extended sermon series (5 weeks) and preach all but one Sunday.
I’ve been awakened.  I don’t think I’ll ever be the same. 
I’m grateful to Peter, our interim lead pastor.  He asked me to craft a sermon series for the post-Easter season.  He asked me to design something for the summer, too.
The latest is a fall pulpit series.  Yes, that’s the third one since Easter.  I’ll be working on that one in July and August.  I’m planning on developing some small group material that will compliment the Sunday morning messages.  It will be made in Hanover, rather than some large church in the U.S.
June-August I will also be working on a distance education course for EBC.  I wrote New Testament 1 (Gospels-Acts) last summer.  This summer I’ll write New Testament 2 (Romans-Revelation).  
Oh, and I’m taking some vacation too.
 

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