I will, on rare occasion, hear a person actually put into words what many church-goers are likely thinking about a person like me: “So what exactly is your problem with church?” Unfortunately what follows from there can rarely lay claim to being legitimate communication. It seems to me that most of the time the questioner […]
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Nearly Reasonable – A Mountain Bike Analogy
May 15, 2012 
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“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little […]
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The Gospel According to MLK Jr.
May 9, 2011 0 Comments
To our most bitter opponents we say: “We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws because noncooperation […]
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The Standard of Man… or, Membership Has Its Disadvantages
May 4, 2011 0 Comments
When you first meet a man on the street, there are a variety of expectations you may have about how the interaction ought to play out. If you are a white-collar ‘nine to five’ sort of person, you probably have one set of expectations. If you are a truck driver, your expectations may be a […]
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The Relationship Identity
March 20, 2011 0 Comments
Having three kids now I have something of a new perspective on my own childhood. One thing I remember being scared of: losing one or both parents. I’ve seen my 5 year old son tear up when asking about the mother of his Nana (“She died? You were all alone?”). He was reassured that Nana […]
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Not Nothing
February 22, 2011 0 Comments
I recently heard the following: “I mean, we’re Christians, we’re not just going to sit around and do nothing on Sunday morning!” Maybe you really resonate with that statement. Or perhaps there is something about it that bothers you. When I heard it, it was delivered with a sort of bemused chuckle which I interpreted […]
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Signs, Signs…
January 27, 2011 0 Comments
My nephew is well trained. If you ask him what the ads are on TV, he’ll tell you: “lies.” My son, not so much. He likes the Nerf dart gun ads. In fact, he loves it when the big kids (who are way too old to be jumping around and doing backflips while playing with […]
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I Will Arrive
January 19, 2011 0 Comments
“Jesus Christ did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men alive.” – Ravi Zacharias In high school my parents blessed me with a 1984 four-wheel drive Eagle station wagon. I think it was their version of birth control. The Eagle poured oil onto any surface over which it sat. Smoke would […]
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The Church in the Snow
January 4, 2011 0 Comments
When I was a kid my mother did a little bit of oil painting. Sometimes she used old hand saws or circular saw blades as her surface. I spent some significant time staring at one particular saw blade painting she did. On the left side of the blade was a little country church with an […]
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