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Children Screaming at God

A couple nights ago, we were out later than usual doing…something. I don’t remember what.
Annette and I had driven separately. On the way home I had Kenni and Caia in my truck, and Annette was going to make a grocery run. That left me in charge of the bedtime routine.
Now, when you’re driving children home [...]

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How Crazy Is Your Love?

Our Journey Group is reading Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love together. The last couple of weeks have been a campout in chapter four, “Profile of the Lukewarm.” My friend Matt Willmington summed up the chapter on his blog a few weeks back.
To get the folks in our group thinking more critically about their own ‘temperature,’ [...]

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Uncertainty

So Annette shared a few days ago that we found out via ultrasound that our next addition to the family is a boy! I can’t lie… Now that we know, I was really hoping for this. In fact, the Sunday before we found out Annette was pregnant, I was walking through our kitchen when I [...]

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Mere Christianity

CS Lewis published Mere Christianity more than six decades ago. I’ve been aware of the book for probably one of those. But I have just read it in the last week.
It has changed me.
I’ve enjoyed some books this year that have a bent towards the fundamentals of Christianity. I read Chesterton’s Orthodoxy last Spring (published [...]

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Rain, Grass, Tru-Green/Chem-Lawn, and Christianity

So after getting fed up with weeds in my lawn a couple of summers ago, I decided to invest in one of those companies that keeps your lawn fertilized and weed-treated routinely. I did the math and figured the price difference between doing it myself and paying them to do it would be money well [...]

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What do you magnify?

When you have worries, fears, sin, or other weight that is heavy on you, what do you magnify? Do you magnify the trouble by letting thoughts of it consume you, or do you magnify Christ and the hope He has for you?

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I AM the New American Idol!

So I had this dream last night that I won American Idol. But it was very anti-climactic because the next morning, no one cared. I didn’t make front page of the newspaper. None of the news channels called. I didn’t getting any late night talk show invitations.
What a rip! Isn’t that the whole point?
In my [...]

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Leftovers [John 12:1-8]

So this has been rolling around in my head the last few days… Remember the story from John in chapter 12 where Jesus is chilling with his close friends the week before his final Passover? By the calendar, it would have happened a couple of weeks ago (Passover began last weekend). He’s with Martha, Mary, [...]

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