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The Future of the Church: ?
What is the future of the Church? This is a question of which I face every day as I step into ministry. In serving with young adults, this is a question I believe is answered beautifully through the unique, passionate, and determined leaders that the Church of today is fostering…
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Ash Wednesday: A Minister’s Reflection
“Remember, you are dust and to dust you will return.” Person after person, forehead after forehead, I repeat this refrain. For nearly an hour and a half, I stand and I repeat. You move from station to station, preparing yourself for the Lenten journey ahead and all the while I…
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A Minister Walks Into A Church…
hristmas Eve was a little different for me this year. When I joined a church staff for the first time almost 9 years ago, worshiping and working at Christmas became an annual reality. As a minister, you’re celebrating the season and Jesus’ birth with all of the awe, joy and…
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Redefining Family
“While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, waiting to speak to him. Someone told him, ‘your mother and brothers are standing outside waiting to speak to you.’ He replied to him, ‘who is my mother, and who are my brothers?’ Pointing to his…
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Change That Transforms
What does it mean to change? I don’t just mean surface level change here, but to really see deep transformation, to walk away at least slightly different than we were? This morning as I sat with my coffee and devotion book, I opened my Bible to Genesis 32. Genesis 32…
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Crammed Cars and Passing Seasons
Yesterday, following a meeting downtown, I decided to make the short trek across campus to the East Carolina student center to check our organization’s mailbox. As I walked, regretting every minute that I was wearing long pants and sleeves in almost 90 degree weather, something caught my eye. Students with…
