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The Things That Matter Most

April 29, 2009

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I’ve spent the last year adjusting to a leadership position where there are so many little things demanding attention and so many trivial topics clamoring for discussion that it’s frighteningly easy to neglect the things that matter most. I don’t yet know if most of life is like this.  I anticipate that this temptation is present everywhere, […]

Closer Than a Brother

April 26, 2009

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Tonight began the first of many end-of-the-year goodbyes to some precious people in my life.  These are people I love very dearly.  I am and will be deeply saddened to see them leave. Over the past several years I have found myself often summarizing the Lord’s blessings on my life by saying that I am rich in […]

The Love of Christ Controls Us

April 23, 2009

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For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised  (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). I think and talk […]

Seven Stanzas at Easter by John Updike

April 12, 2009

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Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, Each soft spring recurrent; It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the […]

Good Friday

April 10, 2009

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Good Friday.  It seems that nothing less than your spiritual best can qualify you to worship on such a day.  A day of gory splendor such as this calls for heartfelt pangs of conviction and heartwarming expressions of gospel praise.  Dressed in white robes or with the flashing brightness of the angels, you may come.  […]

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