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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: God Has Not Released Me
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I heard a preacher say many years ago that he looked to Genesis 5 when asked about retirement. It says they lived so many years, and then they died. Not once did it mention retiring. At 68, I am at the age now when the thought of retiring has become a question. I still work a public job along with being what we call a bi-vocational pastor. As pastor of Cherrywood Baptist Church in Sherwood, I always answer the question of retirement the same way: “God has not released me from that ...
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Dear Editor:
In January of 2012, I told the congregation in First Baptist Church in McNeil, where I had served almost 29 years as pastor, that I was resigning and intending to leave in two months. That was not done because I was going to another church; I simply felt impressed that it was time to leave. I had some ideas of certain things that I would like to do, but wasn’t really for sure...