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God in Uncertain Times
An Ode to All We Do Not Know This morning I thought back to one year ago. I started the day at my desk after some Bible reading and prayer. Worked my job. Enjoyed a sense of self-determination and well-being. At 1, I left to meet a client. By 3:30, I was in the back …[ read more ]
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Does This Year Make Me Look Self-Righteous?
Like so many of you, my heart hurts. I’m weary from grief. I’m worn out with change. My heart weeps for everyone facing prolonged separations from dear ones or who buried family without the comfort of a funeral. And for all who celebrated major life passages with modified or delayed celebrations. The thought of a …[ read more ]
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The Funny Thing about Humility
The funny thing about humility and arrogance is that they can masquerade as each other. When I made my first serious venture into writing, I entered my unpublished novel in a writing contest but didn’t even make the finals. I arrived at the writing conference where the winner would be announced worried that the trip …[ read more ]
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The Act of Worship We Must Commit to Impact Charlottesville and Beyond
When the news is full of rumors of war, protests in the streets, senseless deaths on bright summer days, and hatred spewing from every corner, hatemongers sometimes even invoking the name of our Lord to falsely justify their actions, it can be hard to hold on. But, this is exactly the time not to hide. …[ read more ]
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The Empire’s New Clothes
I’m no prophet but it doesn’t take one to know we’re witnessing a cataclysmic shift in culture. Terrorists and hostile governments target Christians for regulation, oppression, harassment, arrest, persecution, torture, imprisonment, and death in countries around the world. Anti-Christian rhetoric fuels hateful sentiment here on our own shores. The American church, divinely appointed to love, …[ read more ]