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Why I am on Social Media
I blog, tweet and post on Facebook daily. I also have a podcast with two other pastor friends. I regularly say things or post things that inspires, helps, encourages, challenges and sometimes offends. I am also a pastor. For some people, there is an expectation that this isn’t the work of the pastor. He should […]
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We have Lost the Historic Gospel and it Shows
I have been on a summer journey of reflection. One of the things that I have wanted to study is if the gospel message that is being proclaimed today is different than the one proclaimed 200 to 300 years ago. If it is different, what kind of Christians did the older gospel produce? In other […]
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Why Am I a Pastor? Personal reflections on my calling.
This essay is a personal one. It is my effort to cultivate and strengthen my own sense of calling. My goal is to be reminded of why I do what I do; why have I focused my pastoral life on leading a church to a singular focus: to become like Jesus. As the essay will […]
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The Ideas that Allow Us All to Celebrate Independence Day
This Fourth of July, our nation is as divided as we were in the 1960s. Yet, the greatness of this country is not the lack of our problems, or the divisions they cause, but the original ideas that started the grand experiment. These ideas still sustain, invigorate and encourage all of us. They call us […]
