Let’s be Polished Together in 2013 My childhood friend, Kevin, was always filling his pockets with stones. Back in his room, he placed these stones, some water, and a dash of “mystery ingredient” into a contraption on his dresser. Almost four decades later, I can still hear the rock tumbler’s slurry swoosh. If you are…
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So, you are in St. Paul working under your car and checking out the hole in your tailpipe when the jack slips and the car comes down, pinning your leg under the wheel. Hearing the noise from his yard next door, your neighbor shuffles over and assesses the situation. How he responds will tell you
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Should a church provide one-stop shopping? Wal-Mart turned 50 in July. This one-stop giant has been swallowing up mom-and-pop grocery, hardware, sporting good, pharmacy, and clothing stores since the Beatles belted out, “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Love is about the only thing you can’t buy at WalMart. There are 400,000 churches in America, the majority
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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I love honeybees. They clean the hive and feed the young. As they grow older, they build the honeycomb cells and begin to forage for nectar. That’s when I meet them — pollinating my garden plants. Back at the hive, they perform a dance, recruiting other foragers to follow them to my garden with their
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In the essentials, unity. In the non-essentials, charity. And in all things, Jesus Christ.
White Knuckles and Open Hands Read More »