This week I received my new local phonebook on my front porch, complete with yellow pages.  It is thick and heavy and cumbersome.  I’m alway...

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Having lost his twenty-five year old son in a rock climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff, a professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity Sc...

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Holy Week Prayer of Gratitude I thank you, Lord Jesus, for becoming a human being so I do not have to pretend or try to be God. I thank you, Lor...

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I can’t walk through the Easter candy aisle at the grocery store this time of year without the chocolate bunnies, spongey pastel peeps, and the Cadbur...

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I have a pet peeve about using the word “split”.  Tricia and I used to have this discussion when we were in one of our favorite restaurants whic...

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Imagine something with me... It is a bit of a modern twist on a famous parable, but it has been on my mind lately.  I hope I’m not taking too muc...

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Satirist Stephen Colbert has a quote: “If beauty be Truth, and Truth be beauty, then I look fabulous tonight!”  This is one of many quotes he has...

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I was recently told about an informal survey of Christians who were asked why they “chose to follow Jesus.”  The nomenclature in the question use...

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What if the hardest part of facing change is not how we will live successfully in a new paradigm, but rather facing the fear of what it is that might ...

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First I want to thank my friend and worship elder, Rex Schnelle for taking last Sunday, February 13th for me.  What a great day it was.  I h...

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