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March 13, 2019
Rejoice always, really?
One day when my son, Reid, was just a little over one year old, I went home from the office in the middle of the day to surprise my wife for lunch. My wife’s a blogger, and she was working on a new post that day. When I show up, Reid’s upstairs napping. Lauren asks […]
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Missional Communities Practice Hospitality
First, as you are going … welcome a stranger. Missional communities are known for their missional integrity, missional clarity, missional fidelity, and most importantly, their missional hospitality. Missional communities practice reflexive hospitality to the “foreigner” and “alien.” When you have to put Welcome in fancy bold letters on your welcome mat, something is wrong. And […]
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March 12, 2019
Find your one thing
I believe everybody has one thing they do better than anything else. The right place to start is with your one thing. I learned this from my dad. In fact it was a Maxwell house rule when I was growing up. When we were kids, my dad’s message to my brother, sister, and me was […]
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A wretch like me
Christians seem to sing fewer hymns these days, but when they do, sometimes they tinker with the lyrics. Consider the change made to a simple hymn by John Newton: “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound! That saved and strengthened me!” There is a grace that strengthens, as we shall see, but Newton was talking about […]
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March 11, 2019
The great illness of the church
As I was agonizing over these questions, I was introduced to two other writers who turned up the volume of a very different tune. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship and Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy are both commentaries of sorts on Jesus’s most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. Though written decades and […]
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March 10, 2019
Theology matters
When I left for college my father gave me a copy of Louis Berkhof’s Manual of Christian Doctrine, a small classic in the tradition of Reformation theology. The book was inscribed with these words: “For Philip upon entering college, in the hope that your theology will remain Reformed.” My father wanted me to remain true […]
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March 9, 2019
Thinking soberly about death
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). Hemmed in on all sides by the grace of God, being placed in Christ and having Christ living in him, Paul knows he is covered not just in life but in death as well. When God promises life to those who […]
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When the Enemy Strikes
I still vividly remember how I felt on December 7, 1941. It was on that fateful Sunday afternoon as a boy of nine that I first heard about the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. I watched as our small town of Danville, Virginia, began to deal with the possibilities of a war. An unexpected […]
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March 8, 2019
Flip-flopping the pecking order
The temperature is in the twenties. The chill factor is single digit. The West Texas wind stings the ears, and frozen grass cracks beneath the step. It is a cold December day. Even the cattle are smart enough to stay in the barn on mornings like this. Then what am I doing outside? What am […]
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