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Re-think Your Suffering

  I used to try to surround myself with people who were wiser than me.  Now, I’m shooting for deeper.  As much as I love learning theology, and what the Greek and Hebrew definitions of words mean, what I really want is to brush up against an ignited soul,...

Garden Strolls

I just want to begin with a little confession, because I believe that confession is good for the soul.  So here it is, I live my life, more often than not, like I’m lurching towards something more important than this moment. In one sense, there’s a holy...

Not My Story

For nearly 20 years now, I’ve had this really faulty idea that this story was all about this moment in time, about us, about our generation, and, honestly, about me.  There are about 7 and a half billion people on this earth, right now, and I have the audacity...

On Suffering and Empathy

I wonder if my friend, David Butcher, knows that every time we hang out, he leaves me with something to think about.  I don’t think he means to.  He’s just telling a life story or making some random comment about life.  But he always leaves me feeling...

When we are called to Love.

Yesterday, someone asked me if I hated Muslims.  I was shocked by the question.  Of course I love Muslims!  How could I not love others when the highest, simplest calling of a Christian is to love everyone? The tragedy of it all is the reason they asked was because...

Peter’s Busted-up Glory

I had just read it, in Acts 5:15 that “they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.”  And all I can think is, “Boy, am I glad his...

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