I’m often reminded that we don’t always do a great job of honoring those who inspire us, challenge us, and ultimately shape the changes in...

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I wrote this week that most of us lose our authentic selves by creating personas that we think our faith requires mistaking those for our authentic se...

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In last week’s blog I wrote about the idea of God giving us a “new song”.  I posed a challenge of sorts at the end of my post.&...

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A New Song Psalm 40:3 - He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in him. &nb...

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I can take self-pity to some pretty creative extremes.  I can conjure up some elaborate scenarios when I’m feeling ignored, abandoned, and ...

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“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” Henri Nouwen   I’ve read about a time in the early church ...

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“ Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving...

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We believe. We believe less.  We repent.  We resist.  We confess.  We are blinded by our pride.  We are sincere and then insi...

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 Three things in life we can't control. People, places, and events.  Events for me this weekend include the flu. No blog this week.  I'...

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Last week I wrote about the threshold places in our lives.  Something called “liminal space” where we are in between what was and what is yet to ...

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