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What Provokes You?

BlogOctober 3, 2022487Views0Likes0Comments
What provokes you? Politics? Religion? Race? Inequity? Violence? Chaos (OK, this one is a personal provocation!)? No matter what might provoke you to action, if you allow the provocation to be your primary motivation, you are sure to always be provoked. You see, provocation is a “result”, not a motive. And learning what is behind…

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He Will Come Again In Glory

BlogSeptember 30, 2022550Views0Likes2Comments
Alexander Pope said, "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." What a sad, cynical attitude. And yet, this just goes to show that it isn't having expectations that are wrong; it's having wrong expectations. So, the Church calls us to discipline our expectations by grounding them in reality, and reality is…

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Why 12 Apostles?

BlogSeptember 29, 2022512Views0Likes0Comments
Jesus didn't come to start a new religion! I know, I know, you think He started Christianity. But Jesus came and told us He didn't come to abolish the Law, the Torah, but to fulfill it. (see Matthew 5:17-20) The whole of the New Testament is the story of Jesus recreating the People of God. He…

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On A Level Place

BlogSeptember 28, 2022519Views0Likes0Comments
One of the greatest consequences of our modern world is that we moderns have been convinced that egalitarianism and individualism have been elevated to the highest good. We insist on a definition of "freedom" that means "I want to do what I want to do!" But the problem is if I do what I want…

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Simple Isn’t Easy

BlogSeptember 27, 2022460Views0Likes0Comments
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones, after all." So says the author of Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder. But life is so very often not simple. It's complicated and difficult and filled with so many motivations all mixed together and hard to tease out the…

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God Comes First!

BlogSeptember 26, 2022510Views0Likes0Comments
There's something about intimacy that scares us to death AND becomes a central hunger for our lives. We are terrified of loneliness AND intimacy! From sociological studies showing modern society becoming more and more lonely, to small groups of Baby Boomers forming support groups to talk about death and dying, to the perennial stories of men…

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The Day

BlogSeptember 22, 2022423Views0Likes0Comments
I remember the preacher looking at his congregation and saying "One day every crooked place is going to be made straight, and every low place is going to be made high, and every high place is going to be made low!" Then he added the kicker: "Ain't nobody going to escape coming face to face…

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