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What the World Needs Now is Better Wine – Broken Together for Three Decades
Something has always baffled me about Jesus’ first recorded miracle. It seemed so pedestrian, really. He’s at a local wedding and Jesus’ mother learns they’ve run out of wine. This seemed unfortunate but not really devastating. Surely not something I would imagine requiring divine intervention. It’s kind Jesus has compassion on the host and turns the water in six stone jars into wine …[ read more ]
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DON’T Make Your Children’s Dreams Come True for Christmas
If you believe all the commercials and holiday specials, Christmas is about making dreams come true. Funny, no one told Jesus. He didn’t come to work for Walt Disney; He came to fulfill His Father’s will. God doesn’t offer us a Jiminy Cricket faith. It isn’t dreamy to know Him, it’s transformative. Ask Mary. It …[ read more ]
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Does Your Life Really Hug the Curves?
A few years back, my daughter and her tech-savvy friends ordered me a new laptop. It was a gaming laptop with amazing graphics, an extended screen, and powerful drivers designed to enhance the gaming/video/music experience like the ones shown here https://budgetreport.com/best-cheap-gaming-laptop/ . I used it primarily to type Word docs. An accomplished musician friend once picked …[ read more ]
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Traveling with Jesus Makes Me Seasick
Wow. I get it now. Ever have a moment like that? Just, wow. For years, more than I care to number I’ve encountered wave after wave after relentless wave of trial. Ironically, writers are advised to do that to our main characters, “make them suffer,” “when things are bad, make them worse,” “increase the conflict” …[ read more ]
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Scary Jesus
Have you ever stood close to something very powerful? A thundering waterfall? The ocean before a storm? An airplane engine? A tornado? A roaring fire? A raging river? When I was in college, I thought it would be fun to drive along the coast to see the waves just before a predicted hurricane. The surf …[ read more ]