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We’ve lost our way
I recently sat in a church that spends more money on its Christmas and Easter programs than it does on its benevolence fund. I know because they are kind enough to post that information publicly. Five...
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ministry as a guilt trip
There is a blog writer out there — we’ll call him Gary.* Gary started out a recent post by stating that he had great reluctance to write it. It was about the shooting at Sandy Hook and lots of people...
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pondering of the indeterminate time period
John Stott: Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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an unexpected friendship (but should it be?)
A friend of mine pointed out this article today. It’s the story of the friendship between Shane Windemeyer (an LGBT leader) and Dan Cathy (president of Chick-fil-A) as told from the perspective of...
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this is not a game
In my younger days, I played a lot of video games on my computer. (Anyone remember Commander Keen and its cutting-edge use of EGA graphics in the early ’90s?) The real drain on my time, though, came...
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quote of the indeterminate time period
(emphases mine) A gloomy “slouching toward Gomorrah” view of culture leads, I think, to meanness. If we think we are on the losing end of the arc of history, we slide into outrage. If we see...
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pray for warren family
Matthew Warren, youngest child of Pastor Rick Warren, suffered from several aspects of mental illness his entire life of 27 years. In a moment of deep depression, he took his own life Friday. We were...
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An Honorary PPP’er (For Today) Speaks on Rick Warren and ODM’s
As many of you know, we’re somewhat mixed in feelings when it comes to Mark Driscoll, with some of us as fans and others, um, anti-fans. I think, though, that at least for a day, he should be an...
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A Cacophony
If you are in the Christian church you may have heard a lot of voices in the past few years lamenting the inability of the church to connect with young adults who are passionate about justice and mercy...
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A Parable
A certain man shared a garden with his neighbor. For many years they planted, watered, weeded and harvested together. One year a terrible storm came and damaged their homes and some of the crop. When...
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Dressed in White: Why I am #NeverTrump + #NeverHillary
[Sound of me, crawling out of Blogosphere Cryo...] So, it’s been an interesting week, where (absent a delegate coup in Cleveland) Donald Trump has sewn up the GOP nomination, and Hillary is all but a...
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