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Thank you, Royals!
Just about every Spring Training I write my annual love letter to the Royals. Every year comes with that tinge of expectation… not of victory but of bringing me to the very edge of hope and then dropping me off a cliff. This year I didn’t write the letter. Hopes were too high. They had all the pieces in place.…
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Digitizing our experiences
So many of our “experiences” in and with the world… and in and “with” God are digitized these days. To have the physical touch… the physical interaction… without the manipulation of some sort of digital enhancement… just doesn’t occur to us very much.
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The Kingdoms of This World
I am still baffled by the news out of Houston, TX that the mayor wanted sermons subpoenaed from local churches! Allan Bevere hit it on this head with his post. There is a COST to following Christ and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we may begin to feel that pressure a bit here. At this point, it’s silliness.…
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Baffled in Houston
I am absolutely baffled by what is going on in Houston. The mayor wants to subpoena sermons? Here is one response. And in other news. There are still over 200,000 dead from civil war in Syria with over 9 million displaced. And while we mourn ANY loss from Ebola in the U.S., the death toll rises into the tens of…
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“Jesus is Lord” is a confession… and call to ACTION
Christianity touches ALL of a person. We are to understand the need for transformation in thinking, feeling, and doing. It’s not a matter of simply changing behavior. It is a matter of changing DNA so that the fruit is different. We don’t produce the fruit of the Spirit by behavior modification. The fruit of the Spirit flows from the Spirit’s work in…
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The strong AND the weak belong together in the community of Christ
“Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The expectation of transformation
I came across this synopsis of transformational change that comes when our hearts are being renewed. (David Henderson, “The Art of Voice Recognition”, which I found in James Wilhoit’s book, Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered) As our hearts are transformed by faith, we will move: — from self-absorption to concern for God’s Kingdom (Matt. 6:33) — from defiance to…
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Elections are coming
I have no memory of when I was this NOT worked up about an election. Ever. I don’t know if that’s a good sign, or bad. I’ll vote. I’ll care. But everything is so predictable these days, it’s perfunctory.
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Why pay attention to ISIS and the Middle East?
Sometimes we can reason out the current Middle East situation with logic that says, “Let’s back away from the region and let them work it out… or battle it out.” What would be wrong with that? First of all, it’s incredibly difficult to say WHAT to do… but to do nothing has some scary consequences. It is not realizing the…
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10.12.14 Live Dead Part 2 Podcast
“Live Dead, Part 2” — Sunday morning message from Heights Church Subscribe in a reader or on iTunes
