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I haven’t written anything in the past several weeks because I’ve been chewing on whether or not I should write what I really want to write. That seems like a no-brainer for a blog, but I know that many of my Christian friends are split on what I’m about to talk about so it is…
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A while back, Gary Chapman wrote a book called The Five Love Languages. The theory is each of us speaks love in one of five languages – Words of Affirmation Acts of Service Receiving Gifts Quality Time Physical Touch/Affection Of course when Lisa and I read the book and took the test we were exact…
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I just finished teaching Andy Stanley’s Follow Series in our adult Sunday school at church. The eight-week course was mind blowing, because Andy completely changes the way we should think about asking people to follow Jesus. As Andy explains, the traditional church model is “Change and then join us.” But that’s not how Jesus did…
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As a writer, I have all sorts of ideas about what I want to discuss and there’s been this one idea floating around my head for a while that honestly has given me pause to put on paper. Sometimes I test my ideas out on a Bible study class I facilitate to see if it…
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I teach a lot of DVD-based small group curriculum in our adult Sunday school class; one of my favorite presenters is Craig Groeschel of Lifechurch.tv. He’s a younger guy with energy and is very real about the topics on which he teaches. During one of his discussions he landed on a problem all busy people…
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Oregon is a unique state, which may be an understatement given its major city’s motto is, “Keep Portland Weird.” But not all weirdness may be a good thing. If you’ve watched the news during the past couple weeks you’ve heard about Brittany Maynard who recently moved to my state. The 29-year-old has been diagnosed with…
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Although I’ve had a number of jobs throughout my life, my first career was in the newspaper business where I was a reporter and editor. I’ve always enjoyed reading the news and keeping up on current events, but lately the headlines just seem so dour. Here’s a sampling from some of today’s newspapers: Iraqi PM…
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I’ve been away from the blog for a little while because I’ve just been super busy with a number of projects. But during the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about a couple of verses from Paul that I’ve finally figured out for my own life – and perhaps yours. In Romans 7, Paul admits…
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As a Christian, I am finding it harder and harder to just hold my nose and watch as American society sinks into decay through moral relativism. The values I was taught as a child both in and outside the church simply do not apply in today’s society. Right is wrong, wrong is right, up is…
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One of the most common criticisms of Christianity is that people see it as intolerant. From Jesus being the only way to the Father to our rejection of what the Bible calls sin, those outside the faith (and even many inside the faith) reject orthodox Christianity because it seems so narrow-minded. I want to take…
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