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Several months ago I was having a conversation with a man who has been in church and in church leadership most of his life. He’s been a prominent figure in his church. We were discussing one of the specific teachings of Jesus. It was one of those passages that I imagine he’s taught from at [...]
There’s been this tension in the faith I’ve grown up with and I’m not sure how to resolve it, or even if it needs to be resolved. Sometimes I think we expect cut-and-dried answers from God only to find him responding like he did to Job asking, “Where were you…?” or to Paul saying, “My [...]
I played one year of organized football when I was in the 7th or 8th grade. I was small. In the first practice I got run over by the running back who was a good six or eight inches taller than me. I did tackle him, it’s just that I ended up at the bottom [...]
I remember sitting in my seminary preaching lab when Dr. Grant Lovejoy told us that most Baptist preaching breaks down into one of the following: pray more, read your Bible more, give more, witness more. Pretty true. And one thing each of those has in common is that the emphasis is on the individual exercise [...]
Posting has been a little sparse because I’ve been preoccupied – several funerals in the past two weeks, kids in soccer, cross country and basketball and, of course, the priority of taking in a few OU football games. Thinking out loud: I believe there is such a thing as “objective” reality – or that there [...]
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