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February 28, 2019
#TBT — Family Graduation, 1968
This is from either the Dallas Morning News or the Dallas Times-Herald (RIP) in the spring of 1968. My mother received her Master’s, my brother-in-law received his J.D., my brother received his B.A., and on my second attempt got my K. (For reasons that remain murky to me, I dropped out of my first effort
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February 27, 2019
The Dangers Of Memorizing A Bible Verse
Huh? What could be wrong with that? (Usually, nothing.) Until there is. Case in point, though is Romans 3:23, which many, many Christians have memorized: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So far, so good. Except memorizing it that way rips it out of context. What does 3:22 say?
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February 26, 2019
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections On A Staff Seminary With A Princeton Educated, Gordon-Conwell Teaching Friend
Last week, our Staff Seminary featured Don Fairbairn, the Academic Dean and Professor Of Early Christian Thought at nearby Gordon-Conwell Seminary. In addition to all that, he is a member of the Princeton University Class of 1985, which means that we overlapped on that campus for three years. Don and I were in the same
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February 25, 2019
Thank God For Science, Week 4 — The “Do You Believe In Miracles?” Sermon Rewind
Thank God For Science was such a departure for us. As Chris Macedo told me, “It’s the LEAST life application and yet the MOST impactful series we’ve ever had.” I tend to agree. Yet all good things, as they say, come to an end, and so did this series. Here’s the wrap up, riffing off
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February 22, 2019
Thank God For Science, Week 4 — “Do You Believe In Miracles?”
The series began with The Wrong Question as we learned together Genesis 1 is not concerned with HOW and WHEN but with WHO and WHY. Then we looked through the telescope in Do The Math and we realized that a finely tuned universe demands a Fine Tuner. Last week we gazed through the microscope (and
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February 21, 2019
Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
After church on Sunday, a very nice woman from Good Shepherd introduced me to some friends of hers who are new to the church. And my long-time Good Shepherd friend was so excited. “I used these invite cards y’all passed out for the series,” she said, referring to the Thank God For Science cards pictured
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February 20, 2019
English Majoring Forever
As a lot of you know, I majored in English in college. I feel like it has served me well in ministry and I’m glad that my daughter Taylor has is doing a double major in History and English at hVanderbilt while my son Riley had an English concentration at UNC-Chapel Hill. One reason I
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February 19, 2019
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections From A High School AND College Reunion
The highlight of this past weekend was a visit from Evan and Kim Wyly. They live in Dallas, Evan has an ownership interest in the Texas Legends of the NBA’s D League … er, now the G League, and so was in Charlotte for the NBA All Star Weekend Shenanigans. Evan and I both graduated
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February 18, 2019
Thank God For Science, Week 3 — The “Navel Gazing” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message that moved from the telescopic to the microscopic, drew from both Psalm 139 and Romans 8, commented on when life begins as well as the inter-connectedness of all things and landed at this bottom line: The smallest detail reveals the grandest design. So I have a telescope here with me. Not exactly a
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February 15, 2019
Thank God For Science, Week 3 — Navel Gazing
In Week One of Thank God For Science, we discovered together that although we ask Genesis 1 “how” and “when,” it answers back with “who” and “why.” Then last week, we went both interstellar and intergalactic and saw the many ways that a finely tuned universe demands a Fine Tuner. This week we’ll trade our
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