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Mar 28, 2013
“Heaven is important, but it’s not the end of the world!” I laughed out loud when I heard N.T. Wright say this in one of his audio lectures. It’s a perfect play on words. Not only is this a great...
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Mar 27, 2013
Lent arrives via ashes, but Easter bursts on the scene with raucous joy. Easter shatters the heavy sorrow and insists we hear the bold assertion: gloom, sin, injustice and despair have been trampled under the feet of a...
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Apr 12, 2012
Though we try to mark beginnings and endings when it comes to growing food, planting and harvesting aren't really the work of gardening. They are just the ceremony. The rituals of tending and watering and loosening and...
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Apr 6, 2012
Editor's Note: On Fridays we're hosting a series called Everything Matters, in response to the post, Creating a High Calling Culture. Today's installment honors Good Friday, the family, and the ongoing work of...
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Apr 5, 2012
by jbwood
I worked as a management consultant for fifteen years before settling down with the company I am currently with. Like attorneys and used-car salesmen, consultants are subject to their fair share of derision. I honestly...
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Apr 4, 2012
by 23Yanks
He sits beside me and tries to rein in all sixty-three of his jittery pounds, his brown hair uncharacteristically tamed save for the Alfalfa-like rooster tail, his dark eyes dancing about for a clock that isn’t there...
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Apr 2, 2012
by JBlase
John Blase is writing a series of imaginative pieces, one for each day of Holy Week, loosely based on the childhood poem about "Monday's child is full of grace…" Each one highlights a moment in Jesus...
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Apr 2, 2012
On Sunday morning, we wave our palms and sing Hosanna in the Highest. And I am swept up in the raucous celebration—wondering if the stones are indeed crying out. Yet in the midst of this great joy there is a...
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Mar 29, 2012
It was her idea from the get-go, but I was more than willing, it being Easter Sunday. Besides, lately it seems I haven't been getting enough sweet time with my granddaughter. "You take my picture," she says...
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Apr 25, 2011
“Give us each day the food we need.”
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Be Still!

“Be still and know that I am God!” There are few verses in the whole Bible that I need to remember more than this one. Unfortunately, I am wired for anything other than stillness in knowing that God... Read More +