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Father to Son: The Talk
I was privileged to pastor for 17 years and remain a pastor of sorts in the same community. I consider shepherding a local community of saints one of the greatest joys of my life, albeit one of the...
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Greek to Me
Do you like supernatural stories? Add this to your collection: Roughly, say, two or three years ago, my wife handed me a folded note. She explained that one of the women in our fellowship had had a...
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Maddox
This precious, tow-headed little charmer is one of the newest members of our extended family. His name is Maddox. Sandy and I were asked by his mom and dad to be his godparents, in a larger sense of...
View ArticleA Good Spanking
Couldn’t have said it any better… “The older theology tended to produce character. By the end of the 20th century, we have become God’s demanding little brats. In church we must be entertained. Our...
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Perils of a Praying Church
So you belong to a “praying church.” In our culture, that condenses into a formula of a having at least three prayers in the main worship hour – opening, offering and closing – plus a mid-week...
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Sleep Sweet In Jesus, Baby Boy (cont.)
Each and every evening, Sandy prayed over her baby boy – even into his young adult years – the words “Sleep sweet in Jesus…” Night was never Gra-Gra’s favorite time, alas he didn’t sleep through the...
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Gone…But Not Forever…
Graham, sharing with the millennials group in 2012. He was in a recovery program in Atlanta and in a ‘good place’ It’s fitting that before I could post this, my 9th (and presumably last) installment...
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Glorious Assignment
Not to put too fine a point to it, this is the grand sum of all I want my life to broadcast.* Jesus, it’s my joy. Whatever the price, whatever the burden. You are worth anything…and everything. To the...
View ArticleRecommended Book of the Week
Jan Karon’s series set in the fictional town of Mitford, NC has been (at the risk of over-selling it) life-transforming for me. Each volume of the “Father Tim” saga has stirred my heart and revived my...
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Changes Coming
In the next few days you’ll notice significant retooling and rebranding of the website. We’ll even be migrating to a new platform and a new dotcom location. Anticipating these changes, I’ve begun...
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2 Many Tents (In Today’s Church)
An Apostle From The Tranfiguration, Matthias Grünewald I’m fairly certain it was Francis Chan who lamented (rather than boasted) if he and Jesus were to build churches in the same town, Chan’s would...
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Things I’d Say to a Teen-age Boy
TO: A young son in the faith FOR: Introduction to manhood* RE: My ’50-sense’ worth Dear young man: it is manly, healing and cleansing to cry shake hands firmly while looking your counterpart in the...
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White Weddings and Why We Do What We Do
Saturday past was a ‘dad’s’ dream. Under a rain-laden sky, gunmetal gray and threatening, I married one of my ‘sons’ to one of my ‘daughters’ beneath a rustic arbor draped in white and wreathed in...
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That Sunday I Shared 5 Things That Have Sustained Me Through The Fire...
My pastor friend Chris asked me to come to his church last Sunday and share “My Story…” with his congregation. God mercifully moved and ministered some profound healing to His hurting saints. There...
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Glorious Assignment
Not to put too fine a point to it, this is the grand sum of all I want my life to broadcast.* Jesus, it’s my joy. Whatever the price, whatever the burden. You are worth anything…and everything. To the...
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2 Many Tents (In Today’s Church)
An Apostle From The Tranfiguration, Matthias Grünewald I’m fairly certain it was Francis Chan who lamented (rather than boasted) if he and Jesus were to build churches in the same town, Chan’s would...
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Things I’d Say to a Teen-age Boy
TO: A young son in the faith FOR: Introduction to manhood* RE: My ’50-sense’ worth Dear young man: it is manly, healing and cleansing to cry shake hands firmly while looking your counterpart in the...
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White Weddings and Why We Do What We Do
Saturday past was a ‘dad’s’ dream. Under a rain-laden sky, gunmetal gray and threatening, I married one of my ‘sons’ to one of my ‘daughters’ beneath a rustic arbor draped in white and wreathed in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
That Sunday I Shared 5 Things That Have Sustained Me Through The Fire...
My pastor friend Chris asked me to come to his church last Sunday and share “My Story…” with his congregation. God mercifully moved and ministered some profound healing to His hurting saints. There...
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ministers, not messiahs.
St Augustine Beach ©️Pasturescott It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only...
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