Thursday, December 1, 2022

Christ was born!... so Methodists could vote?

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       This morning, I woke up remembering how often I’ve said “A virtue of Methodism is it’s not in our DNA to wake up in the morning and t...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Hope: Saving 1 Life. A sermon preached in Krakow, Sept. 25, 2022

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    Watch here . Text below.     Jeremiah 32, beginning with verse 1. “ The word that came to Jeremiah from the  Lord  in the tenth year of ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Young Karl Barth Preaching, Offending and Reassessing

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       I laughed out loud a few times while reading Christiane Tietz’s wonderful new biography of Karl Barth. Once was during her recounting...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

A Message for the Church on Election Day

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   A reminder or 2 to people of faith on Election Day. God is still God, and will be tomorrow. Political ideology is our idolatry - on both ...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Complicated, Infrequent, Maddening: Reflecting on my Dad's Life and Death

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    Sigmund Freud said that the most important day in a man’s life is the day his father dies. If so, that day for me was Wednesday, July 15...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

God on Statues, Flags and Monuments

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    What does God think about statues being torn down, or preserved? I can’t say for sure. I think of Joseph Heller’s humorous thought in hi...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Jesus on Statues, Flags and Monuments

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    What does Jesus think about statues being torn down, or preserved? I can’t say for sure. I think of Joseph Heller’s humorous thought in ...