faith
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Still Feeling the Nudge?
Have you ever… James 4:17 says, “it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.” (CSB) Why does Scripture have to be so convicting? If you’ve never read The Screwtape Letters you’re missing out. C.S. Lewis’s classic follows an older, wiser demon named Screwtape training his nephew Wormwood in the art of…
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Shifting Gears
It’s been three months since I retired from the pastorate on June 1, 2026. After 7 years of camp ministry and 40 years of church ministry, it was time. If you’ve ever driven an old truck that needed double-clutching to shift gears, you will know that sometimes shifting gears gets tricky. Life has a lot…
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Walk the Walk
Years ago, I was visiting a friend Steve in the hospital. He was relatively young, in his 50s, and had just been diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumors. Not knowing how to pray, I asked Steve, “How can I pray for you?” His answer, “Pray that I would walk the walk God has for me,…
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Loved Before the Stars
Why did God choose you? Why does God love you? Why do you choose to love those close to you? I’m officiating a wedding next week and it’s my first chance to speak publicly in a few months. I’d like to share what is one of the biggest deals to me in all of scripture.…
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Caught
Our verse for the week is a tough truth. Numbers 32:23 (NIV) 23 “You may be sure that your sin will find you out. Try to hide it in the dark, and you will eventually pay for it. Repenting, owning it by putting it in the light of God’s mercy is our only hope. The second…
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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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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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