The aftermath of Paris, the destruction of a Russian airliner, a shooting in Colorado Springs, these are nightly fare on television. Do we live in a broken world? The answer is obvious. Is there brokenness in your life? As a pastor, I continually hear confessions of broken families, broken bodies, broken Read more
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One of the New York Rabbis pointed out that there are only four kinds of prayer: Gimmie, Uh-oh, Thanks, and Wow. Note that Thanks is pretty far down the list. We have so much to be thankful for. We have an overabundance of stuff. We share the the freedoms won and protected for us by […]Read more
- 25 November, 2015
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This Sunday is the last Sunday of the Church Year. In the past there was a countdown at the end of the Church Year–the third last Sunday, the second last Sunday, and finally the last Sunday–as if the footsteps of doom were drawing closer and closer. The readings for those Sundays were of impending Read more
- 22 November, 2015
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There was a purported Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. We certainly do. Think of all of the things going on in our society, many of which we find objectionable. It is precisely in these interesting times that God has placed us and called us to follow Him--to be a worker in the […]Read more
- 15 November, 2015
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