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Continue reading →: Purity culture: The fruit of our “lawish hearts”- A book review
A Culture Born from our “Of Works-ness” I’m listening to Dane Ortlund’s audiobook version of Gentle and Lowly- The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers on my commute to and from work. Driving home the other day, the narrator read the title of the 20th chapter, “Our lawish hearts.…
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Continue reading →: A weight of gloryThis morning before I headed out the door for work, when you were about to jump in your truck and drive to school, I looked up at your face anxious about what you don’t want to face, curious about what you won’t say until it’s too late and then you’ll…
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Continue reading →: The question is, is Jesus worth it?Today at church we sang, “O come to the altar, the Father’s arms are open wide. Forgiveness was bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.” As we sang, years of hard marriage and longings for good things I don’t have filled my eyes with burning tears. And a gentle…
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Continue reading →: The problem with starting over and the hope of redemptionIn the past weeks I’ve heard nearly the same quote from every weary person I’ve encountered, “I can’t wait for 2020 to be over.” Today, the sun rose on 2021 and death, disease and evil are still among us. Even in us. New years bring with them an idea that…
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Continue reading →: This yearThis year I watched the world burnwith anger and liesI watched my sons wallow in the mireand I prayed. This year I watched my friends build theories about conspiraciesand I watched my neighbors wave their flags high. This year I heard cries for justice from the least of us among…
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Continue reading →: In methere’s a dancer a singer a crafter a word-wielder In me there’s a hospital builder a wound washer a home maker a child discipler In me there’s a shepherdess a prophetess a pianist a lyricist In me there’s a warrior a defender a rescuer a runner a strong-armed carrier In…
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Continue reading →: Whatever you do this Christmas
Come with your indifference with your mocking with your doubts with your questions come with your lies with your rejection with your acceptance with your imperfections come with your health with your doctrine with your thoughts with your past come with your burdens with your poverty with your riches with…
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Continue reading →: The good of Christmas lightsLight it upLook hereThe darkness has to flee Let it shineLet it glowLet the love of Christ showLet the things that hideBe exposed Let the things that runCome back no more Let the glory of the LordCapture every eyeBurst from every doorBefore he rises like the sunAnd reigns forevermore
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Continue reading →: Three reasons you think you shouldn’t serve in your church’s kids ministryWhether your church calls it family ministry, children’s ministry, kids ministry… whatever it’s called, here are three reasons people often give for why they shouldn’t serve in a ministry that involves children. I propose these three reasons are exactly why you should sign up this Sunday to serve in your…
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Continue reading →: Words, walls, and the winning way of JesusIn the days after the November 3rd election, I scrolled through my Twitter and Facebook feeds, reading posts from people with crosses, fish symbols and scripture references in their taglines, that left me grieved. They used words like, “go to hell,” held up their Bibles, guns, favored-candidate’s flag, and accused…
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