Month: August 2016

Choosing Life: It All Costs

Deuteronomy 30:15-20Luke 14:25-33 It’s not often enough that I make the time to read fiction these days. This is so, in spite of the fact that a well crafted story — factually true or not — awakens my imagination and pushes me to measure my own life’s choices in ways little else does. And so …

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Rewriting the Guest List

Luke 14:1, 7-14 I took her to lunch a few months ago. If you have worked in a church setting for any amount of time you may have come to know someone much like her. I first met her when she called the church office late one afternoon a year or so ago. She was …

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Running This Race…

Hebrews 11:29-12:2 It is an odd, random memory which surfaces at least every four years about now and it came to mind again this week as I watched the opening ceremonies of these 31st Olympic Games. Indeed, I find myself remembering the Summer Olympics when I was 15 years old. No, not anything specific about …

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