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Comfort Ye My People

I suspect that “comfort food” might better be called “nostalgia food.” There is, after all, nothing particularly comforting about macaroni and cheese, or meatloaf. The value in the food isn’t in the greatness of the taste, but the memories the … Continue reading

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Lisa Joins Me for Life in the Blender, Discussing Washing One Another With the Word and I Explore Where We Go When We Come to His Table

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Discerning the Body

The hard driving forces of individualism do not yet stand astride the culture like a colossus. We have divided our homes into mini-apartment complexes, and our churches into age and gender segregated shopping malls. We break the ties that bind … Continue reading

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 15- We must come together to renew covenant. It was a wise man who first said that the good is sometimes the enemy of the best. Much of what has come to be known as the church growth movement … Continue reading

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Tasting Eternity, The Covenant of Life and Fairy Dust

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Seeing Beyond The Shadowlands

It has long been my contention that the Reformed church never quite got over the Enlightenment. While we rightly reject this premise and that conclusion at the heart of the Enlightenment experiment, we still drink deep of its spirit. We … Continue reading

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Me Not Me

I’m not the man I used to be. Neither am I the man I will one day be. And yet, I am the man I used to be, and will forever be that man. The passage of time experienced by … Continue reading

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What If God Were One of Us?

  It is an old temptation, to construct images of Jesus out of celluloid. Christians have fought for it and against, and will likely do so for generations to come, until the next medium seeks to supplant the Word. We … Continue reading

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May the Best Man Win

It begins, I suspect, with a far too small view of the fall. There is plenty we lament about that dark day in a history’s most beautiful spot. We know that sin brought division to Adam and Eve. The two … Continue reading

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Scar Light

My torso is a map of past hardships. Top left is a scar from where I had a port put in for my chemo years ago. There are more scars where various moles had to be scraped off. Then there … Continue reading

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