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July 2013

July 19, 2013
Kevin Watson is a fellow Methodist blogger whom I discovered recently. He just did a...
July 17, 2013
I learned a hard lesson today. Some of you saw my post where I had...
July 16, 2013
I was frustrated when I took this picture last night from the fifth row at...
July 15, 2013
Yesterday our senior pastor preached a thought-provoking sermon on prayer based upon Jesus' teaching in...
July 14, 2013
Two weeks ago, Jonathan Martin kicked off his "Both And" sermon series on Biblical interpretation...
July 13, 2013
At 5:30 pm on Friday, August 9th of this year, I will be at the...
July 12, 2013
The latest movement in neo-patriarchal evangelicaldom is a call for women to return to covering...
July 11, 2013
Jesus' woes against the Pharisees in Matthew 23 should be mandatory daily devotional reading for...
July 10, 2013
Renovatus Church has just started an awesome sermon series on how to read the Bible...
July 10, 2013
Many Christians operate under the premise that humanity is so thoroughly wicked and corrupt that...
July 09, 2013
The pastor of Scottsdale Congregational United Church of Christ found my track "Our Father" on...
July 09, 2013
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "weightier matters of the law"? It...
July 08, 2013
The title is everything if you want a well-trafficked blog post. Now my task is...
July 07, 2013
This week's Journey to Eternity sermon is about welcome. The word welcome is one way...
July 06, 2013
Today I officiated my first wedding for Kevin Colpitts and Mary Vafiadis, a couple who...
July 06, 2013
The brazenness of the American neo-cons in response to the military coup in Egypt continues...
July 05, 2013
David Brooks really fired me up today with this zinger about how Egypt's turmoil proves...
July 05, 2013
As we celebrate Independence Day, I've been meditating on the inalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson...

June 2013

June 30, 2013
This weekend I preached on the suffering servant passage in Isaiah 53. I talked about...
June 28, 2013
[I posted this on Red Letter Christians two years ago but the Senate's passage yesterday...
June 28, 2013
One of the things I acquired from growing up in evangelical youth groups and parachurch...
June 26, 2013
If there ever comes a time when evangelical Christians are known for something other than...
June 26, 2013
There were three resolutions for the Virginia annual conference of the United Methodist Church this...
June 25, 2013
There's a voice of love in the world that is always telling each of us...
June 25, 2013
There's an African folktale that I've read with both of my sons. In the story,...
June 24, 2013
This week's Monday Merton is taken from chapter 11 of No Man Is An Island,...
June 23, 2013
I'm working through the fourth chapter of Greg Boyd's God At War, in which he...
June 22, 2013
A pointed comment in a Facebook group today really cut me to the quick. Another...
June 22, 2013
A couple of years ago, we were going around the room at our new member...
June 21, 2013
I am a curmudgeon. Not all the time. I'm capable of having my heart warmed....
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