The Pastoral Grind

"Again!"  (Originally written for The Baldwin Bulletin : Pastor's Column July 21, 2021) …“Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” (Luke 17:1-4). Most of us have probably heard some variation of the following quote about insanity often attributed to Albert Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.” With a little research, there’s actually a lot of uncertainty about the origin of this quote. There’s no source to show where Einstein said or wrote this or if it even came from him. Regardles