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A World Without Nukes #2 – The End of The World and Beyond

Posted in Two Futures Project, advocacy, church, missional, nuclear disarmament, prayer on November 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Another reason to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons is that all Christians ultimately believe that a world of unbounded peace and unity will eventually be. This is an eschatological reasoning. Perhaps John Howard Yoder can best articulate this point, but suffice it to say this: There will be a day in the [...]

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Arise At Five

Posted in Blogroll, advocacy, blogs, change, family, fatherhood, leadership, life, prayer on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Every time I mention to someone that I wake up at either 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. the first question they ask me is “Why?”. Why would anyone who doesn’t HAVE to wake up that early do so? Apparently it’s OK for people who must be at work that early, but why punish yourself?
I’m not naturally [...]

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Lord, Have Mercy

Posted in Bible, C.S. Lewis, books, church, grace, history, prayer, preaching, speaking, speech acts, spiritual formation, words on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

As I’ve mentioned, I’m teaching a class on spiritual formation and spiritual disciplines. The class is going well, but as is the case whenever a group of people explore spiritual formation, there are points that stretch all of us. The stretching is always both painful and necessary. After all, theses practices are designed to aid [...]

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A Powerful Footnote

Posted in C.S. Lewis, history, ministry, prayer, quotes, spiritual formation on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tomorrow night I continue a series I’ve been teaching called, The Sacred Way. For 8-weeks we are looking at some of the ancient spiritual disciplines. I call them “ancient” for two reasons: (1) They were all conceived a long time ago and (2) Most people in American Evangelical churches don’t practice them (out of ignorance [...]

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Loving Tears

Posted in church, family, giving, ministry, prayer, problem of pain, tagged , , on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Monday I received a cold call from the local hospital, Kaiser Redwood City. The wife of an elderly couple was dying and the family wanted a local pastor or chaplain to come by and pray with them. The social worker (and you know I have a special place in my heart for social workers) knew [...]

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A Miserable Failure

Posted in Bible, change, church, family, life, prayer on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a taste of what I’ve done the past few weeks while I have not been blogging.
1. Fixing a roof damaged by Hurricane Ike.
2. Getting my home ready to rent. (Fixing a roof damaged by Hurricane Ike, repairing plumbing in the kitchen and master bathroom, painting, repairing ceiling pop-outs, putting in new ceiling fans, hanging [...]

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