3 Ways We Keep Ourselves From Growing (Part 3)
We are in a series looking at the parable of the sower. (If you’ve missed part 1 and part 2,...
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Category: Culture
Too Busy For Fruit – Part 2 (Too Busy For Everything)
Last week, I wrote a rather lengthy post about being too busy. It was probably too long. Okay, it...
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Too Busy For Fruit
I think the year was 2001 or 2002. I was serving as an interim worship pastor at Laurelwood...
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Having Swallowed the Toxicity of Politics. Hook. Line. Sinker.
Love your neighbor as yourself. Do to others as you would have them do to you. Except for when...
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Purveyors Of Hope
1 Peter 3:14-16: 9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil...
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The Church Is Not A Community
I’ve often described the church as a community. Many churches do. Many churches have it...
Read MoreThe Truth behind racism and the only way out of it.
Once again, my Facebook feed is full of stories and posts and responses and posts of solidarity. There is another slew of official letters and responses to what’s went on in Charlotte over the weekend. I first heard about...
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Motive Shift
What drives you? What are your motives? What is that thing, which, at the end of the day makes you...
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What Do We Do Now?
Every year, many of us get our hopes up about a particular football team. We root for them...
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When Is It Okay To Leave A Church?
“This church just isn’t meeting my needs.” I can’t read your mind. No...
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Recovering Pessimist
I don’t know if I’ve always been this way. It’s hard to remember not being this...
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It’s Like Taking Advice From A Compost Pile
We’ve always had compost piles in our family. We dump grass clippings and leaves in a pile....
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