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Jims-Jottings
Jim's Jottings are ZPC Interim Pastor Jim Capps' thoughts on life, leadership, Christianity, and disciple-making. These thoughts are collected in the Jim's Jottings blog below.
Christmas Continued
Posted In: Jottings, Christmas by Jim Capps
In earlier days, Christmas was not meant to be what it is today. We have begun thinking about Christmas just after Halloween. Decorations, power-shopping and parties officially begin the day after Thanksgiving. Exhausted and frenzied we celebrate the holiday on December 25th and then move on, ...
Being Incarnational
Posted In: Jottings by Jim Capps
Recently I wrote about the wonderful way God forever broke through human history in coming to our world in Jesus. While God is the “All-Everything” Creator, above and beyond us in every way, God has chosen to be Immanuel, “God with us.” The action of God coming to our world ...
The Wonder of Christmas
Posted In: Jottings, Christmas by Jim Capps
When I try to contemplate the magic and wonder of this season, three theological terms come to mind. As is true for most theological concepts, they are only windows through which we catch glimpses of God. In I Corinthians 13:12, Paul captures this idea when he writes, “Now I see through a ...
An Important Session Meeting
Posted In: Jottings by Jim Capps
Through the years I have moderated somewhere between 300 and 400 session meetings. In the Presbyterian system, the session is made up of the elders and the pastors. When I first began ordained ministry in 1972, we were all called elders. The elders were ruling elders and the ministers were ...
The Gift
Posted In: Jottings by Jim Capps
In our earliest memories we recall giving and receiving gifts at Christmas time. This week we found out that our daughter, Becky, and her husband, Austin, will be a having a girl. Even though she won't be born until April, we are planning to give our future grandaughter a gift or two this ...
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