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Three Articles and Three Books
When it comes to reading books, I’m a streak shooter. Most months I’m lucky to finish one. But once or twice a year I’ll go on a tear. In April I finished six books. Looks like I need to go on another run before Christmas. There are three books, two already out, one coming in…
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Kanye and Playing Favorites
I enjoyed preaching/teaching Sunday’s message. The illustration about the child stuck in a room with a shattered mirror came to me during the first service. Love it when God gives me stuff like that in the moment. I will use that one again. Here’s the original outline, though I changed the last point to this:…
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From Bad to Worse
When the path to “better” takes a detour
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Deep Thoughts
Lots of great articles this week, with some Deep Thought involved in almost all of them. Let’s start with Russ Douthat’s insightful take on what’s behind the decline in church attendance and affiliation. One of my favorite points: “Church attendance has been falling among the middle-aged and early-elderly cohorts, but the typical millennial or Gen…
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Should It Get Easy?
Living for God is challenging? But should it always be hard?
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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