Author Archives: Clark Bunch

Happy Birthday Mast Tab

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I know it’s been a few weeks since I posted anything. The Read the Bible series/podcast went on hiatus when I took a full time job at the end of last summer. I wasn’t really looking for a job; I had just updated my resume and was considering looking for another church, possibly a full time secular job so I didn’t have to be in a hurry looking for a church, and an opportunity sort of fell in my lap. So I am still the pastor at Unity in Plainville, GA, and also work a 24 hr. on call schedule five days a week. And I’m on the city council, and I have a wife and we’re raising a teenage daughter, and she is in the marching band and girl scouts… between work, ministry and family, my “extra time” for blogging really took a hit. In recent weeks there has not even been a Happy Monday or Satur-deja Vu post.

Here is the buried headline: WordPress reminded me this morning that I have been on this platform for 18 years. If my blog were a person it would be an adult. When I first met Michael Spencer, his blog The Internet Monk had only been around three years. He had only blogged a total of 10 years when he passed away. I did not start blogging until he launched a podcast and began to transition away from posting as often.

I wanted to note the occasion. Since it caught me off guard there’s no bloggoversary special, lifetime stats, etc. Just the acknowledgement that it’s been a minute since I started doing this in 2008. Let me just encourage everyone reading to do well and do good.

Long live the blog.

Satur-deja Vu

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Exactly Similar – That describes when two things are the same only different. This week’s lead in is once again the weather but this time we’re talking about snow in the South and not a crippling ice storm. Athens could see 4 – 5 inches. Where I live, closer to Alabama, will gets bands of snow. There could be 1/2 inch or none at all, while locations nearby could see 1 to 2 inches. Then it will turn cold. Atlanta will stay below freezing from Saturday morning into Monday afternoon.

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Satur-deja Vu

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Winter weather in winter. The image above is what we expect where I live in northwest Georgia. Some 200 million Americans will be affected from Texas and Louisiana all the way up to New York. The problem in the South will be ice and freezing rain. NYC is expected to have the longest streak of days in a row below freezing since 2018. The weather this weekend is no joke.

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We Are Busy

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I posted this yesterday on Facebook but I want to share it here and then add a bit of additional commentary.

It’s easy to tell just by looking around that we are busier than ever before. We used to work a shift at the mill, all day on a farm, or keep business hours in the city, but even if you worked hard it ended and everyone went home. Now we take work with us and clients/customers/bosses expect to be able to reach us anytime. You can put in a full day, then continue making work calls on your dive home then check and reply to emails once at your house. (I’m going to pretend no one is readying email while driving but I know better.)

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Satur-deja Vu

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We have finished our observance of Advent which ends each year on Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of Christ. But our little church out in Plainville, GA does not have a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service so the Christ candle in our wreath has not been lit. I’m going to preach one more sermon, God is in the Manger, tomorrow morning and we are going to light the center tower/Christ candle. No one is going to complain about coming to church and hearing too much about Jesus, right? If so that’s a person I need to have a long talk with anyway.

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Happy Monday

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Hey blog friends, I know it’s a been a while. December is always a busy month and this one has stretched me to the limit, if not slightly past it. Here is a Happy Monday post from 2015. I will drop some tech specs into the comments for my nerd friends.

Enjoy your week, celebrate in whatever way you see fit, do little things that are kind but also that no one knows about. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, God is in the manger.

john 3 16 presents

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Satur-deja Vu

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Good news about the Good News – I find myself a little bit surprised, but in a good way, about the results of this published study. Not only do 74% of pastors report regularly presenting the Gospel, another 11% report doing so two or three times each month and another 3% once a month. There are some other categories of response but the bottom line is that only 1% of SBC pastors say they never offer a gospel presentation. Read the full article here via Christian Index.

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Satur-deja Vu

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Do you know about the little Jesus figures? I think I first saw them back in the summer when we had a Gideon speaker. He just kept pulling them out of different pockets and lining them up on the table. Below left is one I discovered at a Marathon station in Rome, GA. Below right is a sampling of the box of 100 I ordered from Amazon. I have handed them out at church, our city council meeting and to everyone I work with. And, just like the one I picked up that goes with me everywhere, I sometimes leave one here and there for others to find. Because everybody needs a little Jesus.

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Satur-deja Vu

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Let’s start the day with a little baseball history. In other MLB news, Game 7 tonight between the Dodgers and Blue Jays will decide the 2025 World Series.

UPDATE: They played all seven games but in the end the L.A. Dodgers took the best of seven series.

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Satur-deja Vu

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If I had that cup I would probably put it somewhere on display. The odd shape and contours would make it hard to wash. I have a Darth Vader mug, shaped like his helmet, that’s the same way. It was a Father’s Day gift and it will last forever, but I’ve only had coffee from it like once, twice at the most.

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