When I lost almost everything important to me a few years ago, in my quest to survive, I found myself learning things I didn’t realize were out there to be learned. In part one I talked about the surprise of meeting a new friend – a Buddy – named “Chemo.” Here I’m going to tell …
Lessons of a Loser (part one)
I’m a huge loser. I’ve lost huge amounts of stuff, and I’m not talking about stuff like car keys or socks (always just one per pair) in the dryer. In a single two-month period I lost my marriage (of thirty-three years), my ministry (I was pastoring a nice little church in beautiful beach town in …
Mistakes the Apostles made… (part four)
This is the final post on the missteps of the early church Apostles as recorded in Acts. If you want to know what I think about the accuracy of their writings (the Epistles) you'll have to go back and read part one where I talked about that. But that hasn't been my theme. I'm merely …
Mistakes the Apostles made… (part three)
In the first two parts we've been looking at some of the mistakes the original Apostles made and that Luke recorded in the book of Acts. Don't get me wrong, I think those guys were amazing, but they weren't perfect, and didn't need to be for God to use them to get the Church off …
One key to a good New Year
It’s New Year’s Eve and I just wrote an email to my kids wishing them a Happy New Year. I wanted to be sure to tell them I love them, to remind them to not imbibe too much and be safe tonight. Then I wrote, “May this next year be a year in which the …
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