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All too often, we confuse our paying work with our unchanging vocation--and that leads to...

 Coffee grants me the escape velocity to transcend the dull ordinariness of time and self....

When we sleep, we are releasing life and history to the God who never sleeps,...

Why aren’t folks flooding the big sky Great Plains, old school industrial Midwest, and beer...

Your calling is one way that God makes you a gift to the world.

Advent is about praying for Jesus the Immanuel to come into our lives--strength, mind, soul,...

Sometimes we need a broad-horizoned place to hunger and thirst and discover that our soul...

 In hurrying along our way, we often miss what matters most.

Maybe mercy is the key to living well and truly. We’re going to die. But...

What if we came to understand that while our salvation is not in doubt, the...

Eugene Peterson wrote: "A contemplative life is not an alternative to the active life, but...

Before something mighty we have to let ourselves feel a little awe.  Even a flooded...

Jesus' manna helps me challenge the self-constructed narrative that views the future as a to-do...

We can tie ourselves in knots trying to figure out the will of God.  But...

The problem runs deep for those of us who profess to follow Christ. Does the...

I keep discovering anew the originality of Jesus’ life, the daring freshness of the gospels.

In impossible situations, we’re called to be immovable in our confidence that God is at...

While congregations can develop strategies for outreach, what we need to do is have more...

Augustine wrote that the faithful are called to believe the truth of the gospel “so...

The most compelling homes are rarely focused wholly inward.  They’ve got a mission, an outward...

A recent study found that while 40% of rural residents claim to know their neighbors,...

In the end, faith is what remains, that relationship between us and God.  When the...

God calls us by name and invites us to call him by name, to love...

As followers of Jesus, our goal is to do all things as an expression of...

We also have to come to peace with ourselves apart from whatever we accomplish.  Or...

On this Pentecost, where’s the Holy Spirit sending and empowering you?

Distraction is not depth, and at some point, we discover that the only lasting solution...

Training pastors and leaders for the rural church requires us to do the work of...

Whatever questions may plague us, we have to learn a deep sense of love for people...

The words we use to celebrate at Easter are inadequate.  Even our hallelujahs come up...