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Curbside Sacrament
On most Monday afternoons, my eight-year old, Matthew, and I will sneak out through the front door and wave down the ice cream man. Matthew has already worked out a once-a-week ice cream arrangement with his mother on Fridays, but Monday is my day off, and Matthew knows that I am an easy hit on Mondays. I do not mind. When we hear the ice cream man’s tinny song blaring through the … [Read More...]
The Problem with Good Intentions
I read recently that there are 46 million people who own gym memberships in the United States, yet less than 20% of them actually go to the gym. They buy the shoes, the spandex shorts and sweat pants, the work out towel and water bottle. They carry their gym card around in their wallets, their duffle bag sits in the back seat of the car, and whenever they look in their rear view mirror, they … [Read More...]
The Feast of Love
I was talking to a friend of mine who spends a lot of time on the road, travelling from city to city across the country as a consultant. He spends more than two-thirds of his life on the road. We were talking about the toll that travelling takes on a person – the hotels, the airports, the time zones. It all adds up. But he said the hardest part about being on the road so much is eating … [Read More...]
“Get Up and Go” sermon posted on Scribd
We live in a Good Friday world that says, "Get used to it, things will never change." We experience some hardship, or witness some form of violence or tragedy in the world, and Good Friday says, "This is just the way the world is. Get used to it. Accept it and move on." But then Easter happens, and we discover that it's never too late to start all over again, to get moving in the right … [Read More...]
Get Up and Go
If you were to go to the second floor of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., you would find there an 18th Century Bible whose pages are, quite literally, full of holes. The Bible belonged to Thomas Jefferson who, in 1819, began a life-long project of painstakingly extracting from his Bible all the essential details and teachings of Jesus. Using a sharp razor, Jefferson … [Read More...]
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