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Generosity
This past Sunday was a great day of giving. In the morning before church we hit the annual Kiwanis pancake breakfast. The club that runs the breakfast raises several thousand dollars for projects for kids. It’s always a great opportunity for giving… and I get to eat! In the afternoon after church I went over to a fundraiser for a…
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The Great “I LIKE” Campaign, Part 3
It’s difficult for me to write with humor. It’s probably the way I write and I just haven’t learned the art of writing humorously yet. So, I state this up front: Today is just FUN. I’m not going to talk theology or church ministry. I will give opposites in media today. The idea of my little project is to say…
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The Great “I LIKE” Campaign, Part 2
For a fuller explanation of what this is about, go HERE. Basically, I am choosing to say something GOOD about a subject or people when it’s normally easy pickings for criticism. My aim is also to choose “opposites” on a given day. This is a personal project because I can be an “equal opportunity offender.” My goal now is to…
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Mourning the Loss of a Prophet
This word of David Wilkerson’s passing is just coming out. For better or worse, this man stood as a watchman on the wall of our nation and prophetically pastored a church in Manhattan that is doing an amazing work today. His words have angered me, challenged me, and brought me to my knees. The Church in America has suffered a…
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The Kindness of Strangers
Yesterday was a particularly hectic day. I am president of a local community organization and we had our noon meeting. When I was leaving, I ran into some great friends who live in the city and we talked about life, the schools, great things that are going on… it was a lot of fun. Inadvertently, one of the folks from…
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Gut Punch
It is unbelievable how this week has unfolded. The news keeps coming and it’s so heart-wrenching. A friend struggling with a wife’s mental illness. The loss of a great woman of God (my wife’s grandmother). The news of cancer striking at a friend, and they have kids all under the age of 12. The news of a children pastor’s wife…
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Things I Want People to Know About Me
I begin writing this during my sabbatical in August 2010. I will leave it in draft mode until I return to officially blogging in September, and it may never reach the light of day, but I wanted to think about some things I hope people remember about me. This has come on because I have returned from the funeral of…
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People Completely Forgotten
THIS is injustice. We are too silent on behalf of people who have been pawns for generations.
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Transitions
This is the time of year for graduations and weddings. This is a time of year when I reflect often on transitions. Last December, when my oldest son got engaged, I felt a hard transition. Life had just radically shifted. It wasn’t scary. It was just… real. We went out to dinner to celebrate and all of a sudden I’m…
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The Opposite of Love…
A few weeks ago at a conference one of the plenary speakers said something that has rolled around in my mind since then. She said the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is silence. (That may be the wrong word, but it conveys the thought.) When you ignore someone, you are basically saying, “I do not…
Category: People
