I completed another Interim Pastorate yesterday. I only served as Pastor of two churches before I went to work for the denomination, but since then, I\u2019ve served as Interim Pastor of twenty-six churches. This time I was asked if this was my last interim or if I planned on taking on another one. Since number twenty-seven may be only a week or so away, my response was that one doesn\u2019t quit preaching because he gets old, but rather he gets old because he quits preaching. I think that is a paraphrase from a quote in another field of endeavor, but it works here as well. I will soon enter a new decade, and unless God has another idea, I don\u2019t plan on slowing down. When I retired from my Seminary faculty position, I said I was retiring from a position, not from a calling. So, I\u2019ll keep on working, following my calling. The elderly professional baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige said, \u201cWhen I works, I works hard. When I plays, I plays hard. And when I stops, I falls to sleep.\u201d I know what he means. I\u2019m claiming Isaiah 46:4 (NASB), \u201cEven to your old age I will be the same, and even to your graying years I will carry you! I have done it, and I will bear you; and I will carry you and I will save you.\u201d Carry on, Lord while I preach on! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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