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Ouch

Did you know that people still get leprosy? Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t. I thought [...]

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Shoulder Taps

A pastor got into the pulpit to preach his first sermon to his new congregation. He delivered [...]

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“Part One: C*****anity: What if the Church Could Get Rid of Christ?”

During these weeks of Lent, [...]

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Chasing Birds

One of our boys has always had this fascination with wildlife. When he was three years old, [...]

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Eat the Watermelon and Spit Out the Seeds

I was thinking a lot about my friend Angie Shannon [...]

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Yes Francis, We Still Need Jesus

Now that we are a decade into the twenty first [...]

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“Misery needed company. Merry Christmas.”

The 4:00 pm Christmas Eve service at my congregation is [...]

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Advent: Imagining a World Without God

I received a phone call from a doctor who told [...]

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Wild Mercy

Waiting and preparation shape these days of Advent, two thousand years ago and today. In this season [...]

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Shakedown Sunday

November is typically Stewardship time in the church, and it leads to uncomfortable questions about the proper [...]