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Well, I made my very first attempt at Podcasting. I really enjoyed it! If you have about 20 minutes, join me in walking through some of the chapters of Jeremiah, exploring some of
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Sunday my heart soured as our worship band did this song ... it’s my favorite now. It’s about prevenient grace, which warms my Wesleyan heart and reminds me why I am (and always wi
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A friend asked “what is the most essential belief in Christianity.” This is what I said: I’d say the one essential belief (since you asked it that way) is we are created and called
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This is my column which was published in The Arab Tribune on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Few things can be more mind-boggling than the dating of Easter. Who made that decision? And w
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I prepared this for a Rotary Program on April 9. I hope you find it interesting! Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after (or on) the Spring Equinox. That’s the s
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I have had this book for decades but have felt led to go through it again during my morning prayer time. This devotion met me this morning and strikes a chord, during difficult tim
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This is my column which appeared on February 2, 2019, in The Arab Tribune. It was my third trip to Ghana, and I guess that means it’s becoming a habit. If you do something once, it
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I am blessed with the opportunity to write a column for The Arab Tribune. I was pleasantly surprised, however, that they were able to make room for the pictures. Celebrate with us
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This is my column that appeared in “The Arab Tribune” on Wednesday, December 19, 2018. Every year during the holidays, it seems that one story, one experience, or one conversation
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I created this video after the Thanksgiving presentation I did for the local Rotary Club today. It's on the struggle for religious freedom in colonial America, using the case study
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This is my column that was published in The Arab Tribune on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. My mother had a habit that I thought was very odd as a child. She had a particular rocking
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This is my column published in the Arab Tribune on Wednesday, September 5, 2018. “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Won’t
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This morning, during morning prayer time, I was reading from "40 Days in the Wilderness" by my friend Dale Clem. I came upon his idea on day 15 that "when we learn and practice bei
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This is my column which was published in The Arab Tribune on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Pictured are steps on the Perimenter Trail at Sewanee, in the section from Memorial Cross to
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This is a sermon I composed for a class on "Images of God in the Bible" for Dr. Lauren Winner. The class was held in June of 2018 at the School of Theology at The University of the
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I prepared this for the last couple of weeks of a study I did for my Wednesday night class on the "Kingdom of God" spanning the Old and New Testaments. I thought I'd share it onlin
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This is my column which was published in The Arab Tribune on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. This has been an emotional few weeks for me. I do tend to have a little rush with the coming of
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I recently saw a large church-sponsored billboard in a nearby city that said “God bless America.” It had on the billboard the colors of the American flag, shaped like the map of th
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This is my column that appeared in The Arab Tribune on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. I found it humorous that the editor entitled the piece "Jesus' red-letter words show he was progre
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Today is New Year's Day, and I am beginning a journey of focusing on two things: losing 20 pounds and finding new direction for my life and ministry. I have been challenged by my S
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This is my column which appeared in The Arab Tribune on Saturday, December 23, 2017. A number of years ago, long before blogging and social media were something I could imagine (bu
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I’ve been reading the memoirs of a contemporary politician, as I have in times past when books have been published. I find them inspiring in a strange sort of way. Whether or not a
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I recently took about a dozen friends from our church on a prayer retreat to the Upper Room in Nashville. One of several highlights was to spend some time with Beth Richardson, the
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This is my column which appeared in The Arab Tribune on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Pictured is the portable pulpit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., referenced in the column. ---
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