Do you have “doing sickness”?
(This post by me was first published at www.seedbed.com.) She was not a fence-sitter. This was someone who knew how to make things happen. A solid church leader steeped in
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What a farm fence taught me about life and resolutions
I am remembering a walk one day along the fence line of a family farm. The farm has since passed to other hands, but the lessons of that fence have
The birthplace of meaning
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small …” – Micah 5:2 For such a small place, Bethlehem holds a mountain of meaning. The Hebrew word has two parts. The
Make a spectacle of yourself.
Sometimes God uses spectacles. An overly bright star. A cast of angels. A talking donkey. A burning bush. Sometimes, he makes us the spectacle. In this season, radical kindness would
The DNA of the Church
In the final verses of Exodus, of all places, we find the first hints of Pentecost. The people have just pulled together all their resources to build a tabernacle for the
Crazy, or Courageous? (or, why I keep going to work)
You don’t want to be me. According to a series of New York Times articles* and a plethora of other studies** done on the topic, pastors are ticking time bombs. Here
Life is not god.
In 2009, Washington State ratified the Death with Dignity Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide. “This act allows terminally ill adults seeking to end their life to request lethal doses of medication
The gift of intimacy
I am left-handed. When I travel to India, that can be a bit of a challenge. In many middle-eastern countries, the left hand is used for hygiene; using it for
“In the evening I went very unwillingly to Charge Conference …”
This week, I felt my heart strangely warmed. On Tuesday evening, I went (somewhat) unwillingly to Charge Conference. I confess to having lost patience with some of these denominational forms.
Church is a verb.
The tabernacle as we find it in Exodus was meant to be a sign of God’s presence among the people and a signal tower for his plan. Once the tabernacle
Post Traumatic Church Disorder and the Hope of Glory
If you have suffered from PTCD you know it. I heard someone use the phrase last week and it immediately resonated: Post-traumatic Church Disorder. Bad spirituality can make us spiritually
Pigs don’t fly.
A passenger on a recent U.S. Airways flight boarded a plane carrying what other passengers are saying resembled a duffel bag thrown over her shoulder. Her assigned seat was next
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