On The Up And Up, Week 2 — “The Right Stuff”

What does an ancient piece of Hebrew poetry like Psalm 122 have to do with the 4th of July weekend in the USA. Quite a lot, actually. And the reason why has everything to do with the pronouns. To see what I mean, it's Sunday.  8:30.  10.  11:30.  ...

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Some Things I Keep Hearing Come Out Of My Own Mouth

I've noticed that I keep hearing the same things come out of my mouth. So I'm not really saying more.  I'm saying the same things in different contexts and in different settings and to different people. Here are a few: And there's two more coming out in September! She...

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On The Up And Up, Week 1 — Traveler’s Advisory

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBia-3XGDdU   Our lives are always headed somewhere. For some of us, we’re taking a step back. Others, moving from one side to another. But what would it look like if our life trajectory was headed up? What if the phrase “on...

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What A “Regular” Day Showed Me About Ministry

Yesterday afternoon, I went to jail. Then to a hospital room. Then to another hospital room. Then to a nursing home. I was out of the office and away from my computer for several hours straight. That's really not that unusual -- at least for the course of most of my...

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“Clear Your Head” Sermon Rewind

The final message in the BrainWashing series wasn't so much a sermon as a guided series of movements. Working off the premise that To Clear Your Head, Lift Your Heart, I wanted people actually to experience that ways in which various acts of worship led to more...

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