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Reconsider
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6 min read
For the last month or so we’ve been talking about what goes into a new beginning. With baptism, we’re invited to begin again. And with it, we’re invited into following Christ, face adversity, respond, and claim our purpose. Today, we focus on one of the least appreciated parts of our journey. Where we wrestle with…
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“Bad theology is like pornography–the imagination of a real relationship without the risk of one.” And with that, William Paul Young’s forward to The Divine Dance sets the table for what follows. And propels us into the very substance of our faith. We explore what it is we’re seeking. And why it is we expect more…
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On Purpose
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6 min read
Drive What drives you? What gets you out of bed in the morning and puts one foot in front of the other, stumbling to the coffee pot? You get up and you move. I wake up and I drink water and shower and dress and get my kids to school. I don’t want them to…
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Sharing a birthday with FDR
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4 min read
I don’t know why it feels like an awesome responsibility. That sharing of a birthday. It’s not like he’s here to steal some cake. To the disconnected from the cosmic togetherness, the idea of sharing a birthday with anyone is meaningless. Coincidences are like that. Life has no meaning. We’re just so reasonable. For those…
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I don’t want your binary world.
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1 min read
I DON’T WANT YOUR BINARY WORLD I don’t want your binary world. You can keep it. It’s no gift, really. A curse actually. Long distance arguments turn into brief skirmishes in a decades-spanning war. My every little expression dissected, deconstructed, injected, transformed into a wild assumption making me look like an ass and you and…
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Respond – The Beatitudes bless us in seeing
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6 min read
I don’t know what the disciples expected when they followed Jesus up the mountain. Maybe a great wisdom. They hadn’t been following him long. They visited a few cities in the region. So they were just getting to know the man. And he goes up the mountain. They follow. And he unveils the very dream…
Make a New Normal
