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Seasick from Traveling with Jesus
Wow. I get it now. Ever have a moment like that? Just, wow. For years, more than I care to number, I 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 …[ read more ]
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Meltdowns Among the Miracles
I’ll be completely honest with you. Today, I don’t feel like a person who ought to be writing a blog representing Jesus. Lots of reasons. Here’s one: I had to pay a visit to a children’s hospital in Providence today. For all the boldness I display when I write about faith, I’m a nervous old …[ read more ]
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Where Did Following Jesus Take You (Or Jesus Through the Looking Glass)
Portals and doorways fascinate us, not because they are so engaging in themselves but entirely because they lead us somewhere. When Alice slipped through the looking glass, she stuck around to explore Wonderland. When Lucy walked through the back wall of the wardrobe, she explored Narnia. When Dr. Who invites passengers into the Tardis, they …[ read more ]
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Discomfort Ye My People – Or Why Guitar Players Make Effective Christians
My development as a guitar player is seriously arrested. I am a guitar player. I own one. In fact, I own two – a six-string acoustic and a twelve-string. I’ve played on church music teams. I can pick it up, finger some basic chords, and strum. By sixth grade, I could play simple worship songs …[ read more ]
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The Trapdoor in Christ’s Shoulder
Children in healthy families have child-like worries. Children in less healthy families worry about things that should be their parents’ concern. As children adopted into the family of Christ, we retain old habits from when we lived with our former family where we were burdened with concerns we were never meant to bear. Adjusting to …[ read more ]