Pastor Nick
@sirrevdrnick.bsky.social
Small Town Nazarene Pastor | Married to Elizabeth | MAs in Spiritual Formation & Discipleship | Loves Theology & Tolkien | Survivor of trauma, divorce, abuse | 2w1 ISFJ
Let's try a fun game (mostly to see if other people's brains do the same thing mine does):
What two people do you confuse for each other, or think are the same person?
What two people do you confuse for each other, or think are the same person?
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Let's try a fun game (mostly to see if other people's brains do the same thing mine does):
What two people do you confuse for each other, or think are the same person?
What two people do you confuse for each other, or think are the same person?
Maybe some of you are like me and need the reminder that holidays can be challenging for various reasons. Whether because of trauma, disappointment, or just wanting to prove yourself, may you give yourself permission to "try softer" these next few weeks.
aundikolber.substack.com/p/you-can-st...
aundikolber.substack.com/p/you-can-st...
You Can Still Try Softer.
Reflections on a beautiful & complicated time of year
aundikolber.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Maybe some of you are like me and need the reminder that holidays can be challenging for various reasons. Whether because of trauma, disappointment, or just wanting to prove yourself, may you give yourself permission to "try softer" these next few weeks.
aundikolber.substack.com/p/you-can-st...
aundikolber.substack.com/p/you-can-st...
Annual reminder that the Holiday is better than Love Actually.
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Annual reminder that the Holiday is better than Love Actually.
Thanksgiving is done, Black Friday has passed, and now the important question:
What's the first Christmas movie you watch/watched?
What's the first Christmas movie you watch/watched?
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanksgiving is done, Black Friday has passed, and now the important question:
What's the first Christmas movie you watch/watched?
What's the first Christmas movie you watch/watched?
A friend said in a chat today, "I don't trust anyone who doesn't deconstruct [regarding faith]". And if I'm being honest, same. Or at least it's not easy to trust anyone who has not deconstructed their faith.
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A friend said in a chat today, "I don't trust anyone who doesn't deconstruct [regarding faith]". And if I'm being honest, same. Or at least it's not easy to trust anyone who has not deconstructed their faith.
An excellent read as we prepare to gather.
"The first Thanksgiving was full of conflict. Ours will be too. That is not failure; that is family. Gratitude keeps us in the room long enough to remember why we came."
www.christiancentury.org/features/tal...
"The first Thanksgiving was full of conflict. Ours will be too. That is not failure; that is family. Gratitude keeps us in the room long enough to remember why we came."
www.christiancentury.org/features/tal...
A tale of two Thanksgivings
Two adjacent items in a 1943 issue of The Saturday Evening Post highlight the conflict—and joy—inherent in our mythic...
www.christiancentury.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
An excellent read as we prepare to gather.
"The first Thanksgiving was full of conflict. Ours will be too. That is not failure; that is family. Gratitude keeps us in the room long enough to remember why we came."
www.christiancentury.org/features/tal...
"The first Thanksgiving was full of conflict. Ours will be too. That is not failure; that is family. Gratitude keeps us in the room long enough to remember why we came."
www.christiancentury.org/features/tal...
Idk if this is common or not, just here's a thing that goes a LONG way:
When someone asks for a letter of recommendation and the instructions are to send it directly to the job, send the person who asked a copy as well. Reminders like that are powerful.
When someone asks for a letter of recommendation and the instructions are to send it directly to the job, send the person who asked a copy as well. Reminders like that are powerful.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Idk if this is common or not, just here's a thing that goes a LONG way:
When someone asks for a letter of recommendation and the instructions are to send it directly to the job, send the person who asked a copy as well. Reminders like that are powerful.
When someone asks for a letter of recommendation and the instructions are to send it directly to the job, send the person who asked a copy as well. Reminders like that are powerful.
Does anybody have some spare motivation lying around? Specifically for writing? I've got a sermon and some other things I'd REALLY like to get done by the end of today.
Help?
Help?
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Does anybody have some spare motivation lying around? Specifically for writing? I've got a sermon and some other things I'd REALLY like to get done by the end of today.
Help?
Help?
My spiritual director and I spent the first 10 minutes of our session yesterday geeking out about a very niche theological interest we share. It's really great to have those people in your life.
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My spiritual director and I spent the first 10 minutes of our session yesterday geeking out about a very niche theological interest we share. It's really great to have those people in your life.
I really think there’s a connection between being a pastor with trauma history and getting really good at writing benedictions & imprecatory prayers.
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I really think there’s a connection between being a pastor with trauma history and getting really good at writing benedictions & imprecatory prayers.
One of my seminary besties was telling me he wants to scratch the academic itch a bit. So we are planning to start up our weekly book club again AND thinking about going to a conference this spring.
My little nerdy heart is pounding with excitement.
My little nerdy heart is pounding with excitement.
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of my seminary besties was telling me he wants to scratch the academic itch a bit. So we are planning to start up our weekly book club again AND thinking about going to a conference this spring.
My little nerdy heart is pounding with excitement.
My little nerdy heart is pounding with excitement.
Visiting parents and Mom needed my help with a computer thing. So while running tests and updates, I was given access to her FB. I unfollowed LOADS of terrible things and followed a few good ones. Trying to do the Lord's work for boomer parents.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Visiting parents and Mom needed my help with a computer thing. So while running tests and updates, I was given access to her FB. I unfollowed LOADS of terrible things and followed a few good ones. Trying to do the Lord's work for boomer parents.
I was appreciated for Pastor Appreciation Month. I’m grateful for the reminders in card form and the financial gift that came with it. I got to use some of it to add to my ever-growing TBR list.
Thank God for good churches that love pastors well, and thank God I’m blessed with a good church.
Thank God for good churches that love pastors well, and thank God I’m blessed with a good church.
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I was appreciated for Pastor Appreciation Month. I’m grateful for the reminders in card form and the financial gift that came with it. I got to use some of it to add to my ever-growing TBR list.
Thank God for good churches that love pastors well, and thank God I’m blessed with a good church.
Thank God for good churches that love pastors well, and thank God I’m blessed with a good church.
Some days ministry is:
Sitting with a parishioner who has dementia (and going for a 20-minute walk at their insistence) so her husband can get cancer treatment at the hospital.
Praise God for chaplain/hospice experiences that help prepare for these moments.
Sitting with a parishioner who has dementia (and going for a 20-minute walk at their insistence) so her husband can get cancer treatment at the hospital.
Praise God for chaplain/hospice experiences that help prepare for these moments.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Some days ministry is:
Sitting with a parishioner who has dementia (and going for a 20-minute walk at their insistence) so her husband can get cancer treatment at the hospital.
Praise God for chaplain/hospice experiences that help prepare for these moments.
Sitting with a parishioner who has dementia (and going for a 20-minute walk at their insistence) so her husband can get cancer treatment at the hospital.
Praise God for chaplain/hospice experiences that help prepare for these moments.
Elizabeth and I have gone here a few times for date night, and we enjoy them (because potatoes, amiright). We also love how this business has subtle yet sincere ways of stating that they are Christian, offering prayer and meals to those in need.
Magic Valley restaurant provides food boxes during government shutdown
A Magic Valley restaurant is helping provide food for residents amid the government shutdown.
www.kmvt.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Elizabeth and I have gone here a few times for date night, and we enjoy them (because potatoes, amiright). We also love how this business has subtle yet sincere ways of stating that they are Christian, offering prayer and meals to those in need.
Every time someone accuses me and my denomination of being liberal because we support women's ordination, I both want to laugh and shake my head in disbelief.
Tell me you have no idea what you're saying without telling me...
Tell me you have no idea what you're saying without telling me...
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Every time someone accuses me and my denomination of being liberal because we support women's ordination, I both want to laugh and shake my head in disbelief.
Tell me you have no idea what you're saying without telling me...
Tell me you have no idea what you're saying without telling me...
A Prayer for #AllSaintsDay
We give you thanks, O God, for all the saints who ever worshiped you:
Whether in brush arbors or cathedrals,
Weathered wooden churches or crumbling cement meeting houses
Where your name was lifted and adored.
We give you thanks, O God, for all the saints who ever worshiped you:
Whether in brush arbors or cathedrals,
Weathered wooden churches or crumbling cement meeting houses
Where your name was lifted and adored.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A Prayer for #AllSaintsDay
We give you thanks, O God, for all the saints who ever worshiped you:
Whether in brush arbors or cathedrals,
Weathered wooden churches or crumbling cement meeting houses
Where your name was lifted and adored.
We give you thanks, O God, for all the saints who ever worshiped you:
Whether in brush arbors or cathedrals,
Weathered wooden churches or crumbling cement meeting houses
Where your name was lifted and adored.
Halloween night is eventful with these puppies:
Jane thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to visit her.
Sophie thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to kill her.
Never a dull moment. #JanieBear #SophieLillipup
Jane thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to visit her.
Sophie thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to kill her.
Never a dull moment. #JanieBear #SophieLillipup
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Halloween night is eventful with these puppies:
Jane thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to visit her.
Sophie thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to kill her.
Never a dull moment. #JanieBear #SophieLillipup
Jane thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to visit her.
Sophie thinks every trick-or-treater is coming to kill her.
Never a dull moment. #JanieBear #SophieLillipup
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Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
This is your annual reminder that Halloween comes from All Hallows Eve, aka the night before All Saints Day (the Christian feast day celebrating believers who have gone before us). It is rooted in church history and Christian tradition, not a pagan holiday or demonic/satanic practice.
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is your annual reminder that Halloween comes from All Hallows Eve, aka the night before All Saints Day (the Christian feast day celebrating believers who have gone before us). It is rooted in church history and Christian tradition, not a pagan holiday or demonic/satanic practice.
Phyllis Trible, another giant in the world of biblical/theological scholarship, has died. So many this year alone.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Phyllis Trible, another giant in the world of biblical/theological scholarship, has died. So many this year alone.
I wonder if there's a litany for enduring disappointment after being so close to victory. Asking for my Mariners friends. Maybe next year? #ThoughtsAndPrayers
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I wonder if there's a litany for enduring disappointment after being so close to victory. Asking for my Mariners friends. Maybe next year? #ThoughtsAndPrayers
One of my current reads, in which a psychiatrist reflects on the work of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Thankful for a spiritual director who knows me well enough to recommend helpful resources.
October 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
One of my current reads, in which a psychiatrist reflects on the work of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Thankful for a spiritual director who knows me well enough to recommend helpful resources.
One of the little Jesus figures we handed out for Easter was found in the wild! This time at the Filer post office.
A reminder that Jesus is (still) on the loose and shows up in the most unexpected places. #FilerNaz
A reminder that Jesus is (still) on the loose and shows up in the most unexpected places. #FilerNaz
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One of the little Jesus figures we handed out for Easter was found in the wild! This time at the Filer post office.
A reminder that Jesus is (still) on the loose and shows up in the most unexpected places. #FilerNaz
A reminder that Jesus is (still) on the loose and shows up in the most unexpected places. #FilerNaz