For the last few years, I have been getting a lot of strange looks and responses from people this time of year…
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Memorial Day is one of those holidays where our primary identity (before family or nationality) as people of the resurrection puts us in a unique position…
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I had been thinking about it for awhile, but after “Susie” (not her real name) mentioned it to me before worship this past Sunday…
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Quite surely, Hell is against. But Hell does not have the last word…
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PLEASE ALLOW ME TO START WITH A CONFESSION this morning: It is one of the supreme marks of irony…
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It was early March, 1987, in the back room in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh. A sixth-grader had the blank sheets from Sports Illustrated…
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The simple act of peeling off a section of wainscot led into the discovery of a whole lot of other major issues that…
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On this beautiful Monday afternoon, a random day in the life of the DeRidder-Rosepine-Merryville-Singer metroplex, many of us are simply going about our…
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therein is a lesson for congregations within the Christian tradition – we have a choice to operate as we always have, fully expecting everyone who comes after us to have exactly the same experiences as…
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We are becoming a Balkanized people wherein we silo ourselves with like-minded people who throw shade at anyone who dares think or act differently than our standards demand.
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Think last night’s Super Bowl was a great comeback? It was, but pales in comparison to the comeback of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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The true test of character comes not in supporting only those with whom we agree – the true test of character is in how you deal with things when those with whom you disagree succeed.
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Clinton, Bush, or Obama…while I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, in my mind if I did not consider one of them my president simply because their actions or attitudes were not what I wanted, that would say more about me…
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What in the world does a game in Cleveland, OH, on a Wednesday night in November have to teach us about our future as Christians and our life as a church?
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If the one who disgusts you the most were to start attending and expressed a desire to join your congregation, would you shower them with the same invective and caustic language you direct to or about them on your various social media accounts?
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