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June 8, 2018
Movers And Shakers Launch: Erasing A Generation
Where do we find today’s biggest movers and shakers? On Wall Street? Washington DC? The Silicon Valley? These are the ones who shape our lives, what we believe, and how we spend our time. But who influences the next generation? Is it YouTube? Hollywood? The Video Game industry? But what if there is an alternative?
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June 7, 2018
What A Basketball WRITER Taught A Tennis PLAYER About Ministry
Bill Simmons, who is a Boston-bred, Ringer-based author and columnist, has written the definitive history of the NBA with his The Book Of Basketball. In this, the quickest 800 page read of my life, Simmons is in turn unfiltered, poignant, statistical, profane, irreverent, and hilarious. His gifts for footnoting and pop culture analogies have to be
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June 6, 2018
Princeton & The Pain Of Prevenient Grace
In yesterday’s post, I had the nerve to ask whether a degree from Princeton University (or any other “elite” school for that matter) is more of a burden than a blessing. In case you’re curious, here I am as a college sophomore in backhand mode playing a match against Brown. I won that day. You
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June 5, 2018
Is An Ivy League Education A Burden Or A Blessing?
That question looks and sounds absurd, does it not? Why would I even ask if graduating from one of the most prestigious universities in the country could be anything but an honor? Why raise the possibility that it could be as much albatross as advantage? Only someone privileged enough to go there in the first
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June 4, 2018
Eye Rollers, Week 6 — To Save Your Life, Lose It (Guest Blogger: Wayne Hobson)
I was away this past weekend celebrating my wife Julie’s college reunion. (Well, my college reunion, too, but it was her 35th and only my 34th and those “5” or “0” reunions are a big deal at our alma mater.) So in my absence Wayne Hobson preached. Wayne is our Pastor of Congregational Care and
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June 1, 2018
#EyeRollers, Week 6 — To Save Your Life, Lose It
Here are the first five bottom lines for #EyeRollers: You can only love your enemies when you realize you’re the loved enemy. Sometimes you have to sacrifice what is precious to preserve what is sacred. Your anger fades when you faced the ones you anger. The greatest use of your rights is when you refuse
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May 31, 2018
A Talking To Think Moment … And Some New Language For Us?
I have shared with many of you before that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who talk to think and those who think to talk. People who talk to think are also known as verbal processors. They are the kind of folk who will talk to you for ten minutes and
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May 30, 2018
A Note From A Friend Who Is LISTENING During #EyeRollers
Earlier this week, I opened my email to this gem in my in box: I gotta tell you that I was watching a show last night called “The Killer Speaks” (not sure what this says hahaha-I’ve been interested in the psychology and brains of serial killers-I probably should have been a criminal psychologist lol) Anyway,
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May 29, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Paul Simon Songs
Having just finished Robert Hilburn’s Paul Simon: The Life, I thought it time to collect my top five (or six) favorite songs from Art Gurfunkel’s shorter, and more prolific half. The songs below are all from Simon’s post-Garfunkel career, so no fair asking why The Boxer or The Sound Of Silence aren’t included. 6.
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May 28, 2018
Eye Rollers, Week 5 — The “Be Perfect, Therefore” Sermon Rewind
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. What kind of absurd demand is that? Why in the world would Jesus tell all of us who are clearly imperfect to become perfect? As it turns out, it’s one of those commands that lit a fire under early Methodist preachers like John Wesley and Francis
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