Just Sitting Here Thinking
A collection of sermons and lessons by Rev. J. Vance Eastridge of the United Methodist Church, including study series and ”introspective” character monologues. After more than 40 years as a pastor in the Holston Conference, Rev. Eastridge continued his ministry through the Virgil Anderson Sunday school class at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church from 1995 to 2012.
Episodes
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
1-21-07 The Bread of Life
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Lesson on the meanings of Matthew 6:11 - "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
Friday Dec 24, 2021
1-14-07 The Trilogy of Faith, Judgment and Eternal Life
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Lesson on the journey through - and intersection of - faith, judgment and eternal life .
Friday Dec 24, 2021
1-07-07 Freedom
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Sunday school lesson on freedom, its importance, and what it really means - through a Biblical and historical perspective.
Friday Dec 24, 2021
12-31-06 Keeping Balance
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
A New Year's Eve lesson on finding and keeping balance in our lives.
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
12-25 Christmas Introspection on Joseph
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
A brief history followed by a thoughtful character introspection of Joseph, the father of Jesus, told through his own eyes in monologue.

J. Vance Eastridge
From 1955 to 1994, Rev. Eastridge served as senior pastor of over a dozen churches throughout Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia in the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. Upon retirement, Rev. Eastridge found a new ministry as a writer and teacher of the Virgil Anderson Sunday school class at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church in Johnson City, Tennessee. His books include a memoir, I Don't Know Who You Are...But I'm Glad You Came, a brief history of Methodism A Man Named Wesley Passed This Way, and a collection of essays, meditations, poems and photographs Just Sitting Here... Thinking, for which this podcast is named.






