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Signal Strength

Around the 5th grade, I was diagnosed with ADD. I don’t think the “h” part was included back then, but hyperactive I was. (Yoda?) Anyway,...

Weary and in Wonder

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of...

No Longer an Orphan

As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”...

An Invitation to Reflect

Yesterday, sweet Chad found himself in time out for a few minutes during dinner. It had been a really fun, highly active day following a...

Gospel Friendship

I’ve been aware, lately, of my tendency to view people a little too much through the eyes of Law. Having been on the other side of those...

Flesh and Spirit

Recently, I overheard a friend describing his conflict with another friend as simply a result of his own “being too much in the flesh”...

The Ouch! and Ahhh! of the Gospel*

I was recently given the assignment to tell my story to a small group of trusted friends. It wasn’t the kind of story telling I am used...

Deliver Us from Which Evil?

Yesterday at church, the opening prayer included one line that really struck me. As Walter was going through the various places from...

Forgive Us Our Debts

The matter of extending forgiveness and asking for it is one that most Christians agree with but we really don’t grasp. For so long, I...

Be Anxious For…

That ol’ verse from Phillipians that we like to quote…how does it go? “Be anxious for everything?” No, that can’t be it. “Be anxious...

Vote of Confidence

On the few occasions I have gone hiking in a tick heavy woods, the immediate task upon completion of the hike is to search each person’s...

When Bad Things Happen

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in...

The Grace in Ambiguity

In a group with close friends, we’ve been talking about God’s gift of ambiguity, and perhaps by definition of the topic itself, there...

Nothing

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. ...

The Pharisee in Me

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the...

Superstitious Hearts

Chad has recently moved from being consumed with talk of Star Wars to talk of Bakugans, those little round transormer like toys. They...

Where Are You?

The Garden. It gets referenced here and there in our Bible studies. We’re not exactly sure what to make of it, how it exactly fits, if...

All About You, Who?

Last weekend, thanks to the generosity of Terrell’s parents’ babysitting and our friends’s lake home, Terrell and I had just under 48...

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