Have you ever have someone speak malice against you? To slander your name publicly? If you have, you know it’s not fun.
I was coaching a group of high school kids this past weekend. Our team won a tournament that was a pretty big stepping stone for the program, and yet my day was soiled by […]

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I am learning. I may be slow, but I am moving somewhere, and the direction is towards a place of deep enrichment. Not just a bettering of myself, no, it is a place of blessed enrichment for all outside of me yet beginning inside me. Is that babble? Here is what I know to be […]

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RM: But you’re talking about a generation that has a put a great
amount of emphasis on having friends and surrounding themselves with
community…
DW: That’s an expression of their loneliness. But most of them don’t
know what community means because community means assuming
responsibility for other people and that means paying attention and
not following your own will but submitting […]

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I got to have a great conversation with a young woman yesterday at a coffee shop. She was reading a book that intrigued me, I think it was called “Letters to a Christian Nation.” I haven’t read it, but she seemed to like it. We started talking a bit about our own thoughts on God […]

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Kim, my wife, is struggling with a wonderful chapter of her life coming to a close. She has been a part of a team of girls for the past five years and is looking at the next few months like the last few pages of a beloved novel. Her blood, sweat, and tears have literally […]

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There is only one thing you can do when you are on the fence with any decision. Because no matter the weight of the decision, a fence can be quite painful to straddle. Decisions like breaking off or fighting hard for a relationship, keeping or quiting a job, leaving or staying in school, whatever the […]

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3456977.shtml
UhhhOhhhhh….
Maybe this is necessary. Televangelist have never really rubbed me the right way to be totally honest, but that is probably because there have been so many who have misused that position.
Hopefully what will happen is that these ministries are living above reproach. If people are going to be in the public eye and claim […]

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Here is a blurb from a friend of mine who openly discusses his experience with some christian friends. I think Sam is hitting on a real (if not the real) issue here.
…I think the problem is that on the surface it seems like we are speaking the same language when discussing spiritual life, but at […]

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I was checking into a hotel last week and got into a conversation with Sarah, the girl behind the counter. She was helping us figure out where we were staying and all that good stuff. Somehow we started talking about working with pastors and churches and she was intrigued. She said she “used to go […]

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