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10 Faith Insights from the Election
If I’d never paid attention to anything in the bible I wonder what my faith would be like? When kids are little, they learn how to live by watching the big people. That’s how they learn things like trust, fear and distrust, and when to make a fuss about being hurt. What the big people do inspires the little people to imitate until it becomes part of their automatic response to life. This election has given me new insights! Read the rest of this entry
How to Pick the Good News Out of the Bad News.
I had lots of burning questions and I wanted to know all the right answers. Things were happening to me that I couldn’t understand. They’d told me it was easy to follow Jesus and that he wanted me to have a life of “abundance and freedom.” I hadn’t seen that. Read the rest of this entry
How One Church Re-invented The Wheel.
The church had occupied that corner for years, so long, in fact, that the locals knew to ignore it. They drove past but they never considered stopping by; why would they? Read the rest of this entry
If I Give A Dog A New Name, Will He Still Bite Me?
A few years back there was a trend to rename churches. Everyone wanted to lose all the denomination tags and baggage and rework the image of their churches. Read the rest of this entry
If Christians Have Such Great News How Come Church is So Boring?
Or, seven keys to producing deadly boring church services. It has to be Read the rest of this entry
Unlocking the Relevance of Palm Sunday
As the preacher wearily ground his way through his long recounting of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion it crossed my mind that we were really missing the point of Palm Sunday entirely. Read the rest of this entry
How to Exceed Expectations Others Impose on Us
A voice calling. Is anyone listening? Does it matter if no one listens? John used to tell the story of his early years. He’d been raised in a strict religious sect and they understood the meaning of legalism in its fullest sense. They figured Read the rest of this entry
How to Change your Mind to Change the World
It’s the warning sign that the summer vacation from school needs to end real soon. The conversation begins with, “I’m bored!” Unsuspecting parents get snagged at this point; even as the words leave their mouths they know they have just been sucked into the vortex. Read the rest of this entry
Does No News Beat Bad News?
Apparently he had lived in France for a while. It might have been a very interesting place to be and it was obviously important to him. It’s good to show interest in someone’s story but if they keep raising it again and again there comes a point at which Read the rest of this entry
Would You Rather Have Good News or Bad News?
His eyes were bulging and he was red in the face. Every movement he made seemed to involve waving his soft fat finger in my direction. He’d never made the effort to talk to me before but now he was using all the resources he could gather to talk at me. Apparently I was to blame for Read the rest of this entry
