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Wading Through
Why doesn’t God ever part my seas?
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Ash Wednesday for Evangelicals
As a multi-denominational church, we have people who grew up with Ash Wednesday and Lent as central to their celebration of Easter, and people who make jokes about giving up cleaning out their bellybuttons for Lent. I grew up in the latter camp, but I am learning to appreciate the former. For those of us…
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Follow the Leader
A couple ideas about leaders–and the people who follow them.
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Words Matter
Here are the notes in case you want to follow along. “I Have a Dream” As I mentioned in my sermon, Martin Luther King’s most famous speech can be divided into two sections. If you watch the video below, up until the 10:45 mark or so, you can see him frequently looking down at his…
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Cut to the Back of the Line
Some behavior is hard to copy. But Jesus tells us to.
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Down Syndrome and the Image of God
My little brother Kerry had Down Syndrome, so articles like this one always strike a chord with me. By Samuel L. Caraballo In 2008, my daughter Natalia was born with 47 chromosomes, a condition is usually known as trisomy 21 or Down syndrome. Before her birth, all I knew about Down syndrome came from my high…
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Chaos, Power, and Peace
It frequently takes contrast to make something clear.
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Division in America
Ross Douthat is one of the best conservative, religious columnist out there. He likes big words (see the excerpts below), but this is a solid look at three books that propose three theories on why there is so much division in America. The Many Polarizations of America This month has brought a surfeit of interesting…
For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.
I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.
As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.
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