Don’t let an argument with your pastor or your Sunday School teacher keep you from going back. Don’t let your preferences of peripheral issues (carpet colors or worship style) keep you from leaving a family. Don’t let your doubts and discouragements about church growth and church leadership keep you from digging deeper where it matters most.
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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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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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. . . a real friend is not happy to see us shipwreck our lives and will love us enough to tell us when we are wrong, foolish, self-centered, egotistical, lazy, self-righteous, and drifting.
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Several years ago, I dipped my foot into the blogosphere with two intentions: First, write something helpful—on occasion, maybe even inspire. At the…
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