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Prayer to Be Jesus’ Hands and Feet
This is one of my favorite quotes that I read in my morning prayer book a few days ago. It’s from Teresa of Avila and helps me to put things into perspective: “Christ has no body now on earth but...
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The Story of Baptism and the Story of Grace
On Sunday I’ve chosen an odd topic, one that now that I’ve got into it, I find so beautiful, compelling, and life-changing. What’s odd about the topic is that it is Baptism. I would say that most...
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The Story of Baptism ~ Grace, Gospel, and Gift
On Sunday we looked at the story of Baptism. You’ll be able to download the sermon here. And what I realized as I prepared the sermon on Baptism is that it’s really about grace, gospel and gift. We...
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Optional Christianity ~ Picking and Choosing What to Follow
Soren Kiekegaard wrote: “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we...
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Learning from Leviticus
On Sunday we are looking at one of my favorite books. Leviticus. My guess is that it isn’t one of your favorite books. But on Sunday was are going to be learning something unique about God, and giving...
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Can I Go to Church Daddy?
Hudson has started getting into this habit. Here is what it is. He keeps asking to go to church. Now this is a great habit, and no he doesn’t ask to go to church as much as he asks to watch the movie...
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Does Jesus Want to Play Trucks??
Hudson, on Christmas said something very profound, and no it wasn’t “presents!!” What Hudson said that caught me off guard was this…“Daddy, Jesus come soon, and he play with me.” He then told me that...
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Les Miserables and the Gift of Grace
I went and saw Les Miserables last night. The movie was as fantastic as people have been saying. There is so much depth, truth, and brilliance in it. In fact, it has one of my favorite scenes of all...
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Struggling with Speaking of Sin
Through the past few weeks I’ve started to notice something about myself. There are certain Sundays where I come away from speaking and don’t feel that I’ve done my best. I feel like I’ve missed the...
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Lenten Reflections: Stations of the Cross, Station 11
Station 11: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross Written Reflection: Spikes are nailed into Jesus hands and feet. Flesh is torn, blood is seen, and pain is felt. With each nail waves of pain come over Jesus....
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Heaven is Here Now…
On Sunday we talked about the end of the story. We explored the last two chapters of Revelation. These chapters are full of images of life and hope. We read of living waters flowing, bringing healing...
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What is a Biblical View of Marriage?
All this month we are talking about developing deep roots in our families and friendships. Tomorrow we are hosting our first annual marriage seminar. Our desire is that healthy marriages would turn...
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Power, Dominance, Submission, and Jesus-Style Love in a Marriage
On Sunday we explored the potentially difficult passage of Ephesians 5 where Paul writes, “Wives submit to your husbands…Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church”. What we came away with was...
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Dads, Dedications, and Decisions that Last a Lifetime
On Sunday it’s a pretty special day for me as a parent. We are dedicating our little boy Asher. You only get to do that once…well actually we dedicated Hudson twice but that’s a story for another day....
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Prodigals and Finding God
Over the next few weeks we are going to be moving into a new series looking at the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. This is a story that is very well known in general. But what is often true is...
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Wandering Lost and Finally Finding Home
On Sunday we explored the first of three sermons on the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). In this sermon we looked at the prodigal son and how we are often so much like him. How we too have left home, and left...
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Outburst of Love and Encouragement
Want to know why I love our church? Because of this: Quite a few weeks ago, I was trying to think of how I could show my care for a family in our church. They had an important doctors meeting, so I...
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Confessions of a Pastor: Limitations
I have a confession. I’m an imperfect person. I have faults and flaws. I’m not sufficiently good, wise, or amazing to make things work everywhere. I know I have limitations, I know I have temptations,...
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Finding God all Around Us
Today I want to just focus on a quote from Eugene Peterson that really spoke to me: You would think that believing that Jesus is God among us would be the hardest thing. It is not. It turns out that...
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Long Days…And Gifts of Grace
This week I had a long day…I mean a really long day. Sometimes this happens. The day started out with nothing planned. But by the end of it I had met with upwards of 15 people, with 5 groups of people...
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