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Beyond fig leaves…
In ministry to youth since my college years, there have been many psychologists, sociologists, neurologists, and even parents who have attested to the teenagers’ quest for “self” discovery. Throughout...
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One Year.
One year ago I was on my way to the D6 Conference in Texas, along with our new lead pastor and another pastor friend we picked up along the way. I was attending the conference both as a “Pastor of...
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We Are Seeking…
In 1965, the Jamaican Methodist church was seeking a year of renewal. Sir Hugh Braham Sherlock, a Methodist leader also known at the time for writing the Jamaican national anthem “Jamaica, Land We...
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The Baker of an Ordinary Cake (a parable)
There once was an amazing baker, who had one of the most incredible minds and tongues for creating something not only visually spectacular, but that also wowed the senses all at once upon eating. She...
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As we continue in celebrating the Easter season – it’s great for us to be on the look-out for echoes of New Creation, creativity, and resurrection life. Recently I found God winking at us through the...
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A Wrinkle in Parenting (spoiler alert)
We’ve just returned from the theater, only to verify once more – the book is always better than the movie. It sounds like such a great homeschool policy – “We’ll only go see the movie if we read the...
View Articleit (still) exists.
There is an unseen cancer, and with plenty of time to roam It’s fused itself into bone, not simply in homes but in the structures of our own Zones divided by race and income are just the surface, and...
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May I have your attention, please?
I’ve been reading The Attention Merchants for fun between classes, & as everyone is posting “New Years’ Thoughts/Resolutions”, I thought this was an important time to share the surprising insight...
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Advent, an event meaning “arrival”, no rival strong enough to keep this weakness out Setting down clout and power, vulnerable as a flower In a field, a creation to be healed, as his life peeled back...
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Kingdom Trajectory of the Distanced
PSA: This is an oddly “nerdy” post. A paper I’ve recently written for class. Reading back over it, I thought “wow, I like that.” So I decided to share it with you. This does not endeavor to explore...
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Snails & Rose-Tree’s
During bedtime prayers tonight, I read our girls the story from Hans Christian Andersen, “The Snail & the Briar” (which apparently most people call “The Snail & the Rose-Tree”). I’d never read...
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This little light of ours…
The sun is big. Like, really big. Bigger than most of us can even fathom, given how huge our own planet seems. For a quick example, the circumference of the sun (how far one continuous path would be...
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for the love of donuts.
Paul writes in his letter to the early church in Rome, “For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race” (9:3) This was mentioned in...
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safety
A few weeks ago, my wife sent me a picture our daughter had drawn. A stick figure that seems wrapped in a straight jacket, that my wife (because she rocks, naturally) asked our daughter to tell her...
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inter-generational…
In so many areas of life/culture, groups of people are divided and set against each other. By race, understandings, generations, cultures, experiences, etc. The Church is always to be the place that...
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a snapshot of celebration.
Easter week is over. The dust is beginning to settle on a roller coaster of a month. There are still large unknowns about what God has in store, but we are incredibly hopeful about how we can not...
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Judas – The Betrayer
You look down on me, I know. You can’t believe I would do what I’ve done. Looking back, I want to tell you – I can’t either. I can’t explain it, but it seems my entire life I’ve been awed with the...
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Shell or Rock?
Moana was a fantastic movie for so many reasons. The chicken made us laugh. The grandma was one we all wish we had. The usual motif about “someone realizing there was something mystically special about...
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Puppets & Jellyfish
Last week I sat down to watch “Galaxy Buck: Mission to Sector 9″ with my kids, and I was kinda blown away. Here, condensed into a 40 minute children’s puppet movie (with quite a bit of humor), was a...
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