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March 13, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Times What Felt Like PUNISHMENT Was Actually PREPARATION
I wish that my foresight was as accurate as my hindsight. I bet you’re the same way. We have seasons in life that, as we head in to them, feel like seasons of punishment. They involve duty, training, re-education, and orders from on high. Then once that particular season is complete, we recognize the “punishment”
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March 12, 2018
A King’s Ransom Launch: The “All The King’s Men” Sermon Rewind
It’s not just the verses that are inspired. It’s the whole process — compilation, composition, design — that bear the marks of divine authority behind Scriptural gift. Nowhere is that more true than with Mark’s treatment of all the failures of Jesus’ disciplines. Mark is meticulous, detailed, and sometimes even hilarious as he records all
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March 9, 2018
“A King’s Ransom” Launch — “All The King’s Men”
Our journey to Easter will go through the Gospel of Mark and just how it is he presents the betrayal, suffering, abandonment, and triumph of King Jesus. Here’s the sermon bumper video will says it all: We begin this Sunday with “All The King’s Men.” That’s because out of all four Gospel writers (Matthew,
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March 8, 2018
What A Collection Of Young Adults Says About … Sex
Our One Sixty Seven series has been one in which the sermons were merely appetizers for the small group conversations to follow. And such was the case last night, when I gathered with a Young Adult LifeGroup I am privileged to lead in order to discuss the sermon-based content of You Give Love A Bad
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March 7, 2018
When You Can’t Articulate …
Several years ago I came across a startling statistic: Vocabulary of a three year old in a professional home: 1,116 words Vocabulary of an adult in an under-resourced home: 974 words As mind-bending as that statistic is, its implications are even more troubling. When adults can’t articulate what they feel, they DO. So when adults
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March 6, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Songs I Listen To While Working
It was Snow White who taught us to whistle while you work, wasn’t it? Yet I’m not much of one for whistling. On the other hand, some music while I’m working — in particular while I am either writing a sermon or writing notes to first time guests — often provides just the background I’m
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March 5, 2018
One Sixty-Seven, Week Four — The “You Give Love A Bad Name” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message, which concluded the One Sixty Seven series, also …. got its title from a Bon Jovi song; began with a shout out to Star Wars as the names of celebrities caught up in the Reckoning that followed the #MeToo movement scrolled on the screens, complete with musical accompaniment; shared the biblical bookends that
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March 2, 2018
#OneSixtySeven, Week 4 — You Give Love A Bad Name
It was 1986 and Bon Jovi told us this: And that video has had 184 million views! Anyway, our 21st Century American culture has taken giving love a bad name to a entirely new level, hasn’t it? A toxic combination of power, lust, and entitlement has resulted in what we call the #MeToo movement. So
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March 1, 2018
The Whimsical And The Weighty
A collection of thoughts and observations ranging from from the personal to the political and from the light-hearted to the heavy-handed … The most exciting thing in my life over the past week has been working with a new contact lens specialist to locate a new brand and a prescription so that I am not
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February 28, 2018
When My Life Suddenly Snapped Into Focus
It happened when I saw this: Between 13 and 16, the biggest songs were: Hotel California Take It To The Limit Over The Hills & Far Away Brown Sugar More Than A Feeling Stayin’ Alive (OK, there are exceptions to every rule.)
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