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It’s the End of the World As We Know It?
“In my corner of the religious world, some say it’s time to focus more on the world after this one and not worry about the “fallen” one we’re in. The thing about that kind of giving up? It’s not Christlike.”
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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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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…
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My New Year’s Resolution: Love, No Exceptions.
A few years ago I sat with one of the students from our college ministry and talked about life and what the world needs from Christians and the Church. He sat and thought for a few minutes and responded: “we, as Christians, really need to just love.” He paused for…
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Eight Aspects of my “Family” I am Thankful for This Christmas
Laughter, good conversation, encouragement, presents, presence, and love- all good attributes of what I’m thankful for when it comes to family during the Christmas season. It is no accident, though, that I put family in quotation marks in the title of this post. For me, this Christmas, family goes beyond…
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Don’t Rush the Ticking
Tick. tock. tick. tock… In most of the rooms in our apartment (and in my office at the church) are “old school” clocks that tick and tock with each passing second. Sometimes I find myself so busy with whatever task I’m working on that I don’t even notice the faint…
