When the Holidays Only Bring More Pain
Loss, it seems, only gets amplified with every Christmas carol. It gets turned up to 11 as fresh waves of lament wash over the grieving. Know this: the holidays are not a gift for everyone.
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WHEN REVIVAL LOOKS DIFFERENT THAN WE THINK IT SHOULD
You would think after 2000 years the church would have gotten its act together. It seems reasonable even to think she would be…
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“Let Go, Let God” Needs to Die
Because silence in spiritual conversations is never allowed and always out of bounds, we reach down into the depths of our Christian bumper sticker library and say with confidence, “Let go, let God!”
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Pastors Are More Than . . .
Pastors are not primarily comforters in the wilderness who whisper platitudes. We are dynamite-men. Lighting fuses and waiting for the power of God to make a way into the promise land of faith.
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Let Your Pastor Be a Person
I don’t come down off Sinai with my sermon every week. I don’t have a monthly commute into the third heaven to get my marching orders from the Trinity. I’m living in the same space as everyone else.
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