It's easy to make someone else the problem.
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Elder Youngest
Looking into your own child’s eyes as you anoint them (and holding it together) is not something they teach you in seminary.
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Sitting in the Congregation
It’s easy for me to forget – as the pastor – that I am also a worshipper.
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Belonging and Known
I believe in fiscal responsibility, but I don't think my fiduciary responsibility in the Church is the same as if I were serving on a board.
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This Great Commission
Youngest's baptism, c. 2002 Today Youngest was confirmed, making a public profession of faith as he reaffirmed the baptismal covenant. This is my charge to the confirmands. Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told...
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Just the Right Size
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: Who Gets It?
Set apart a tithe of all the yield of your seed that is brought in yearly from the field…. – Deuteronomy 14:22 (NRSV) This is the third in a series of reflections on the tithe. I have been studying what...
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First Love
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands: “I know your works, your toil and your patient...
