Other Irreverent Ramblings
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Too Easy
I had a really cool retirement party a month ago. People wrote letters, sent videos, dug up pictures of baptisms and weddings I’d been part of. It felt like being at your own memorial service, where people only say the best things about you. I think we all need that once — to be blessed…
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3000 Years of Not Being Able to Turn Your Mind Off
Do you ever lie awake at night, unable to shut your mind off? Here are two poems about that exact experience. One from King David around 1000 BC, one written just last week. Three thousand years apart, and the human heart remains the same. Psalm 4:4 reflect in your heart on your bed and be…
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Why Bother to Pray?
I realize God tells us to pray, but really, is that the only reason, “Because He said so?” This last week a friend (Ira) and I drove from Albuquerque to Phoenix to visit and pray with Stephen and his wife Kimberly. They are a young couple from church, and Stephen has stage four colon cancer.…
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MLB’s PRIDE Hats: A Christian Perspective
Thank you Major League Baseball. You gave me a new insight into Deuteronomy this morning. I’m referring, of course, to the current MLB controversy when players were required to wear PRIDE hats and some wrote Bible verses on them. The passage was Deuteronomy 10:12–11:25. Here’s the Verse for the Week: “What does the Lord your…
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You, Me, and Vaccine Mandates
Chances are, if you aren’t being required to be vaccinated for work, you know someone who is. Even if you, like me, have been vaccinated, we should care for those who are being required to do something in violation of their conscience. This is something that is a special concern to me as a pastor.…
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Why You Shouldn’t Give Up on The Church; By Pharaoh
We are currently in a study in the life of Moses at church. It occurred to me that Pharaoh would have had a unique view of what is happening here. I wrote this for the church, but thought others might enjoy it. Exodus 8:1 (NIV2011) Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and…
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Why You Should Hate
Hate gets a bad rap. God hates. Recently, I read that “you will never turn from a sin you don’t hate.” Have you ever had one of those sins that just stayed with you? You wanted to end it, but it just hung around like the puppy we bought last year. It’s familiar. It’s tenacious.…
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