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The Stinking Lesson of the Stinking Garbage Can

Experience is overrated. We often learn its lessons too late. Though once it has aged it can pack a punch. My father, about the time I entered into junior high school, impressed upon me the lesson experience taught him too … Continue reading

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Be Careful Little Children What You Hear: Listen Now

There is a steep penalty to pay for our steeply declining level of discourse. As a culture we have grown radically more emotive and radically less thoughtful. We communicate in 280 characters, through memes, with the broad brushed strokes of … Continue reading

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Our Illiteracy: The Shameful Ignorance of our Churches

Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones. Moses and the burning bush. Hosea’s marriage to Gomer. These are not obscure stories hidden in out of the way books of the Bible. Yet each of them I have recently found were … Continue reading

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Tariffs and Inflation: And Never the Twain Do Meet

Economic pundits have been celebrating of late that thus far we haven’t seen a deep spike in inflation due to the imposition of tariffs on foreign goods sold in the US. In other news, thus far the lint in my … Continue reading

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A Confederacy of Dunces: Crooked Sticks, Straight Lines

Some years ago I had a refreshing, encouraging conversation on a podcast, with a well known blogging friend on the subject of writing. One of the things covered in that conversation was dealing with criticism. The irony is that each … Continue reading

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Being RC’s Son- Living in the Shadow of Love

It isn’t at all unusual, when I am scrolling through twitter to see someone tweet some version of this simple but poignant idea- I miss RC. These are people who, like me, benefitted from his teaching and were charmed by … Continue reading

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Oklahoma Not OK; “Conservatives” Dictating The Future

It was Ronald Reagan who warned of the scariest words. “We’re from the government and we’re here to help” ought to terrify us. I’m sorry to report many who see themselves as conservative seem to have lost sight of this … Continue reading

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Encore Edition; Limited Atonement, Pastor Pinhead & More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Work of the Ministry and the Ministry of Work

I give thanks for my seminary education. All that time and energy devoted to studying the Scriptures revealed, among many other things, that the Bible says not the first word about seminary. It does, however, tell us a thing or … Continue reading

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Courage- Our Failure as His Kings and Queens

It is a phenomena we’re all too familiar with. Jack, or Jill, having been pillars of their high school communities, serving as leaders at the church youth group, head off to college. There they head off a cliff, spiritually speaking. … Continue reading

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