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In the company of giants
It’s a new year and another birthday, so I was reflecting on where life has brought me. As usual, it’s not events. It’s not milestones in career. It’s people.
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Things worth the effort
We close 2023 on a Sunday. A day to reflect. I find myself left a bit spiritually breathless at the end of this year and realize so much of it stems currently from the conflict in Gaza. The sheer magnitude of loss has overwhelmed me at times. The grief over Israel’s leadership and their determination to wipe out an entire…
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Happy New Year 2022
All it takes is a spark of hope. Be that hope in the New Year.
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Here comes 2022
After the last two years, how we probably look at 2022:
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My 54th Year
The beginning of the year. The beginning of a new year for me. I open up my Bible to read Genesis 1 and I come past the title page. On that title page I wrote a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it serves for my life goal in this year of 2020: This, I pray, would be the sum of…
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The end of the matter
2019 closes out. 2020 looms large. In all of it, with politics and anger, frustration, joy, loss, and victories… it is refreshing to me to end the year in Bible reading with Revelation. The end of the matter is summed up well here:
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Letter to a dead church
In writing to Sardis, there is an interesting note. Craig Keener points out in his commentary on Revelation that the two harshest rebukes in the seven letters of Revelation were to churches where even the cities don’t exist anymore.
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Change. Immediate. Now.
Too much life online. It has to stop. Now.
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Here is to the future
For those friends around the world who’ve already had the new year… how is the future? Here is to what lies ahead! GREAT SCOTT!
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Deeper in the Word in 2014
As we aim toward a New Year, we always have that daunting task of “resolutions.” One of the great goals we should always have in mind is how we can deepen our walk with God. For me, the question is always centered around prayer and the Scriptures. How can I best center my life in those two areas? Those two…
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