The summer of 1992, Michele and I took 13 middle school students to the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe area. We should have known we had bit off more than we could chew when 24 hours prior to departure, a parent insisted their foreign exchange student who spoke excellent English (she didn’t) also go on the…
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Pastor John scared the Hell out of his congregation. Some say literally. As he preached, Pastor John described sinful men as hanging perilously over the mouth of Hell, held up solely by a single thin thread of the grace of an Almighty, offended, angry God. Before his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
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The Annual Darwin Awards are given each year, saluting those whose actions demonstrate that the human genome is not always improving. One such Darwin Award nominee are five inebriated Michigan men and a hunting dog who, intending to duck hunt, attempted to open up an ice-covered pond with a stick of dynamite. After consulting with
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In greek, Oligos means little or few. Pistos means faith or trust. Oligopistos – Little-faith. How are faith and worry related? How big is your God?
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Can we have money and Jesus? A Christian view of money and wealth. Matthew 6 tells us, “You can’t serve both money and God.”
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Reflection: Curing Hurry Sickness ‘You can’t follow Jesus at a sprint.’ – John Ortberg ‘Hurry is not of the Devil, hurry IS the Devil ‘– Carl Young The practice of fasting, solitude, and Sabbath can help apprentices of Jesus ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives. Jesus knew that a life of hurry can destroy our
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