At long last, we are finally nearing the end of what has been a brutal slog of an election season that has offered a lot more heat than light, and a lot less substance and civility than this country deserves. It has, at times, felt like the civic...
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Welcome to the new year! I’m going to forego the usual pastoral reflections about making resolutions, keeping resolutions, breaking resolutions, abandoning resolutions, and so forth. Everyone knows that even the hardiest of New Year’s resolutions...
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Last month, in my article “Called to Worship,” I discussed that worship is about so much more than our corporate meetings. It is a biblical mandate on how we should live our lives. Worship is the proper response to our God who has given us...
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I love the book of Nehemiah. It’s the story of what God can do when God’s people work together with a shared purpose and a common goal. For Nehemiah and his fellow Israelites, the task before them was rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem that the...
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