Salvation

Once again a prayer from Walter Brueggeman’s Prayers for a Privileged People.
Salvation Oracles (On reading Isaiah 43.1-5)
There is a long list of threats around us:
terror,
cancer,
falling markets,
killing,
others unlike us in all their variety,
loneliness,
shame,
death –
the list goes on and we know it well.
And in the midst of threat of every kind,
you appear among us in your full [...]

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Off The Tracks

Do ever feel as if your life has come off the tracks?
Right now, there are hints of derailment going on at our home. First, my wife, Rochelle pulled her Achilles and is in the third week of a six week confinement to a boot and crutches. Second, her mother, who was here to help with [...]

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5 Things I Think I Think.

Borrowing again from sportswriter Peter King, here are 5 Things I Think I Think.
1. Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog has the best take on the Dobson/Obama biblical debate. Check it out here.
2. The most nervous person in the world yesterday was Tiger Woods’ knee surgeon. Can you say “Billion Dollar Knee?”
3. Nothing fun happens in [...]

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The Sufferer

There’s a an old saying: “Women sit at a restaurant and fight over who can pay the check while blacks can’t even get in the restaurant.”
The statement is intended to highlight the disparity some see between the cause of women’s right and equality in the U.S. and that of African-American’s (we’ve had this conversation in [...]

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Prayer

Forgive me, Lord. I covet.

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Happy Father’s Day

Today is Father’s Day. As I was playing with my daughters earlier I realized that they are what makes me a father, and they are the reason I want to be a good father. Chris Rock once said that father’s of daughters have one job: “to keep their daughters off the pole.” Obviously there is [...]

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