Kerux Christou, aka Herb's Blurbs

Kerux Christou is a phrase from New Testament Greek meaning “herald of Christ,” i.e., a preacher.

Worship at Home!

March 27, 2020 By Rich Herbster

The advent of coronavirus has brought a series of wrinkles to our Lent. We are experiencing an unprecedented level of disruption to our daily lives with this pandemic. It has affected workplaces, schools, and our worship life as well. Two Sundays ago we radically modified our worship service, cutting programs to reduce person to person […]

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Responding to Covid-19, The Light Always Dawns

March 17, 2020 By Rich Herbster

Beloved Mt. Pleasant Flock, We face an unusual and difficult moment in the life of our world, our nation, our local community, our families, and our church family as well. None of us knew a few weeks ago the ways in which a virus that had sprung up halfway around the world would affect all […]

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Let the Children Go From Me?

January 30, 2020 By Rich Herbster

We see a glimpse of the assembled saints in glory in Revelation 7, and they are remarkable for their diversity – those of every race, tribe, people, and nation gathered before the Lamb of God – offering him praise and honor and glory. The gospel is for all people: rich and poor, black and white, […]

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Good News, Bad News

October 11, 2019 By Rich Herbster

Beginning Down the Path of Discipleship In our last post, we began down the path of discipleship. Every path has a beginning. We are going to begin down the path of discipleship at the beginning. And following Jesus begins with the Good News, the gospel. Good News, Bad News. Has anyone ever asked you…do you […]

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Down the Path on The Way of Discipleship

September 11, 2019 By Rich Herbster

When you are a kid in a Sunday school class, there are certain things you learn. Maybe you once sat on a little kid chair in a dingy church basement and stared at a flannelgraph. I did. I can still almost smell the mold and bask in the warm, moist asbestos-laden environment. One of the […]

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I felt the need to name my blog. “Pastor’s Blog” is just weak (and, quite unimaginatively, common). Kerux Christou is a phrase from New Testament Greek meaning “herald of Christ,” i.e., a preacher. That’s me – pastor of Mt. Pleasant and Professor of Preaching at Trinity School for Ministry . And it’s a Greek phrase. I’ve spent over a decade as a Greek Language instructor (so Greek is appropriate). I thought it was a cool blog name too. I asked my wife what to call my blog and she suggested (with a good-natured and cute smirk) “Herb’s Blurbs.” Obviously a very different vein, but I like that too. Not only because it rhymes (which it does!), but because it reflects a corrective to my pretense and reflects the more earthy and mundane nature of most of what I have to say. Let’s face it, most of the time I’m more a Herb’s Blurber than a Kerux Christouer anyway. And I spend most of my time with real people who are dealing with real life stuff. The juxtaposition of the two terms hopefully illustrates the kind of content you’ll find here - which will ideally be thought-provoking, spiritually enriching, and practically applicable for everyday, ordinary life.
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