Grinch-mas

I love Christmas time.  I didn’t always love it.  As a pastor, the Advent season turns ones schedule into a chaotic blur of movements and scheduling conflicts.  It’s always been a difficult time in terms of balancing the busyness of the season with what it’s really supposed to be about.[…]

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Being wet…

I read this quote this week: “help me to receive again my baptism, to live wet every day of my life, as a child of your covenant, set apart, scrubbed clean, & forgiven.” I’ve been thinking a lot about the journey of faith and this thing we call “Christianity”.  According[…]

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Dreams…

I know someone who dreams in technicolor!  No, it’s more like 3D, Dolby-Digital, enhanced, Blu-ray, awesome vision.  This person dreams such vivid and real dreams that I regularly find myself overwhelmed by the next morning recounts.  I’m overwhelmed because I feel like I’m getting cheated by only hearing about it[…]

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Doubt: Evil in the world and God, doubt, questions, worry, evil

For 3 weeks now, our world has had a front row seat for a horrendous event – the earthquake of Japan has become a rallying cry for humankind. There are millions of different voices all screaming for some hope in the midst of such a tragedy. Some use humor as[…]

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