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I am reading through 1 Samuel now and Samuel as a character always draws me in. His “calling” is what his mother says it is. He grew up with a fixed duty. It’s offensive to our Western sense of the individual. That was just the world in which Samuel lived. Read more
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On a recent personal retreat the Lord had me centered in the Book of Daniel. While there is so much to share from that rich exploration, the main takeaway is this: Read more
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I was on a personal retreat this past week. The Lord had me take a hymn with me along with passages of Scripture. The words of this hymn drilled deep into my soul. All my struggles are nothing. His kingdom is FOREVER. Focus on the PROMISE not the PROBLEM. Read more
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Tish Harrison Warren has a great interview with a Muslim who makes the case for religious institutions to thrive in our public life. Read more
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I will be heading out on a personal retreat this week and try to move away from all the electronic tethers that I use to choke me… and then I blame Mark Zuckerberg… But I digress. Read more
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I wrote on the heartbreak of baseball in the last post. My main heartbreak has been the realization that the time I grew up with is just a bad organization. My second heartbreak is I am far removed from a Major League team where I live now and it’s just hard to keep up. Read more
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Since moving to the South where I am hours away from Major League Baseball and the dominant culture here is SEC football, it’s been hard to keep up with the sport I deeply love. Baseball puts most people I know to sleep and some of you are already yawning. Yet, here I go again. Read more
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