I woke up this morning with a slight melancholic disposition. It might have been a depressing dream that I can’t remember, too much sugar in my diet yesterday, or more likely my team’s frustrating loss last night. Whatever it was, I couldn’t quite fling my mind off of its negative loop. I felt like my …
When God breathes…
The day before I fell in love with Jesus I felt his breath on my cheek (OK, not literally, but it was no less real than literal). Several months earlier, in an effort to help me get to know Jesus, a guy named Joel had given me a Bible. “You’re going to make a good …
THE KINGDOM OF GOD: FORETASTE TO FULFILLMENT
(A Brief Summary of the Bible's Teaching Concerning the Kingdom of God) The game was about to begin and our Coach huddled with the team for final instructions and pep talk. He stressed to us the fundamentals of holding onto the football and not turning it over to the other team. But sure enough, in …
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Funny stuff that happened to me as a pastor (Part 2)…
Yet another beach baptism and being washed up to shore… I hope one baptism story after another isn’t boring you. Or worse, if you’ve not yet taken the plunge, I trust that I’m not dissuading you from it. I say in all seriousness, that baptism is not only a command of Jesus for true followers …
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Funny stuff that happened to me as a pastor (part 1)…
God can be comical when he wants to be. And some of his people, gathered in churches can do some pretty funny things. I was a pastor for over 30 years in four different churches. Lots of great eternal stuff happened, lots of sad stuff, but lots of weird and funny things too. Some of …
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