Faith and Hope

Faith and Hope

              A couple of months ago, I bragged to my congregation that we northerners, especially we upper Midwesterners, “get” summer so much better than our friends to the south. It’s all in the contrast. We have such long...
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ReThink

I used to think that we needed to pause for a long time after “the wages of sin…” When I served as pastor of a Lutheran Brethren church for 15 years, I found several good friends in the local Evangelical Pastors’ Fellowship. Our group would hold joint worship services...
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Is It Soup Yet?

This analogy probably wasn’t George Barna’s in the first place, but he brought it to my attention with the title of his book The Frog in the Kettle. The idea is that if you drop a frog into a shallow kettle of boiling water, the frog won’t die. It will react to the...
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Joy Alone

Call it a strange new hobby. I can’t stop viewing them, at least one a day, sometimes two. You see, I came across a website dedicated to sharing the testimonies of new believers. Specifically, they are people who have come out of a major American pseudo-Christian...