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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Among other things, my job involves leading foreign mission teams. Specifically, I travel to Uganda, Africa. If you want to go, message me in the comments at the end of this article. Leading a mission team is tricky. For one thing, people don’t always understand why they are going on a mission trip. We don’t…
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A Christmas Letter
Time can get away from you. As we near the end of a most untraditional year, here’s a chance to revive a holiday tradition—the Christmas Letter. People have always sent holiday greetings but the Christmas Letter, as far as I can tell, became somewhat of a tradition in the 1950s. The format is simple. The…
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Gentle whispers and burning bushes
Several years ago, I got asked to speak at a church on the topic of giving. Of all people, I don’t know how they could have picked me. I had not made a big gift. I didn’t even give regularly. I stressed over what to say. On a good day, I am not a great…
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Life’s Roller Coaster
I love roller coasters. I love life. Both make me anxious. For some people, a roller coaster is analogous of life. It has thrills, curves, highs, lows. But, to me, it’s not a good representation because everyone on the roller coaster is going through the same hills, curves, highs and lows at the same time.…
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Things We Learn From Children
Here’s another one I wrote for “Parenting Points.” Here’s the link to the original. Hope you enjoy. Let me know in the comments. *** As I was pumping gas earlier this week, and taking note of the “summer surge” in gas prices, I was reminded of a conversation I had with my daughter about a…
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Do as I say, not as I do
This is an article I wrote for the Parenting Point column in Anniston/Gadsden Christian Family magazine. You can visit that site here. *** If you watch television, you may have seen the series of commercials where adults begin to act exactly like their parents. While humorous, the commercials ring true. That’s what makes them funny.…
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What we can learn from Tony Robbins
I have watched the Netflix documentary, I am not your Guru, four times now. I have a confession. I enjoy Tony Robbins. For years, I have heard Robbins as a guest on a podcast I enjoy. I have seen his books in the store but I had never watched any of his specials. When the…
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Back from the ashes
To say I have not written in a while would be understating things. I wrote two articles for this blog in all of 2017. No wonder my mind is so cluttered. A few years ago, I committed to write an article a day for each day of Lent. Some of them were posted here, some…
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Ecclesiastes: The Book of Eeyore
As we start a new study series in small group, I am resuming (hopefully) the habit of posting online more often. We’ll see how that goes. Today, we started a study of Ecclesiastes. It is an interesting book written in a much different manner than the rest of the Old Testament that surrounds it. Attributed…
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2016 in perspective
I don’t make resolutions to start the year. I can understand why people do—we all need a reboot now and then—but I take a different approach. I look at the beginning of the year as a Christmas letter to myself. If you are not familiar with the tradition, many people write letters to friends…
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