As we recognize that Christ is all – even outside our own box of biases, giftings and sensibilities – we begin to experience the fulness of Christ.
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Sufficient Grace, Part III
May 23, 2012
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As I learn to adjust to the reality of diminished capacity, I’m seeing God prompt people who I’ve invested my life into and mentored in the Lord. Others are now step forward – without me asking – to fill the voids. This, to me, has been the most precious affirmation of God’s grace,
Read more Sufficient Grace, Part II
April 19, 2012
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Recent tests indicate that my medical condition may be fatal. However, I’m still alive, I’m loved and God is still sovereign!
Read more Becoming Our Past
February 26, 2012
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Often, longstanding hurts, disappointments and emotional wounds are like old, familiar friends. We let them become so engrained into our sense of identity that they begin to define us.
Read more Room at the Inn
December 24, 2011
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This Christmas, the question yet remains: Is there still no room at the inn? Take a chance. Embrace the Joseph’s and Mary’s of our age.
Read more I Am Content
December 15, 2011
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A poem of sorts to express my gratitude to the Lord and my love to my wife, Marianne.
Read more Grace, Mercy and Love
November 23, 2011
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Too often, we forget that there is a context to grace, mercy and love.
Read more The Road to Grace
November 21, 2011
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For the religious, the road to grace is the toughest journey they’ll ever face. But slowly, I’m finally starting to find it.
Read more Beauty from Ashes
September 9, 2011
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I take on pastoral sex abuse cases not only because I believe in justice, but because I also believe in redemption. Often, I have the privilege of seeing God’s grace shine through as healing comes and the survivors begin to find the strength to reclaim their lives – and their stolen voices.
Read moreAbuse, Church, Grace, Gratetude, Healing, Justice, Mercy, Pain, Redemption, Woundedness
The Buffers Between Us
June 6, 2011
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I was hungry and you were glad you voted for politicians who supported food stamps…
I was destitute and you wondered if there was a homeless shelter nearby…
Read moreAbuse, Compassion, Faith, Grace, Love
The Storm
April 28, 2011
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There is something in the prophetic personality that loves the thunder, the lightning and the storm.
Read more Understanding the Seven Motivational Gifts
January 2, 2011
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This PowerPoint presentation looks at the seven gifts listed in Romans 12, and the motivations and ways that different people use those differing gifts.
Read moreChurch, Community, Faith, Fellowship, Gifts, Grace, Leadership, Mercy, Prophetic, Virtue
Helping or Enabling?
June 21, 2010
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For me, if the Gospel doesn’t work for the “worse” of us, then it doesn’t work for any of us. But I’ve learned some hard lessons along the way.
Read moreThe Gospel vs. Religion
May 24, 2010
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Tim Keller, an author (The Reason for God, Counterfeit Gods and Prodigal God) whom I have come to deeply respect (and who also happened to attended Westminster Theological Seminary — although I don’t recall that we knew each other), developed this list comparing the Gospel to Religion. It’s a good focus for prayerful meditation as [...]
Read moreTrue Ministry
February 27, 2010
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Last night, we had one of our best times of “participatory church” as we seamlessly shared a meal, partook of communion, fellowshipped and ministered one with another — and none of it depended on me! The last several weeks have been very emotionally and physically exhausting for me. On top of my best friend dying, [...]
Read moreKen Hornby (1945 – 2010)
February 16, 2010
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Kenneth Lewis Hornby — a pastor, mentor, mutual confidant, fishing partner, flying buddy and friend who was closer than a brother — died early this morning after an extended battle with cancer. Although he was my best friend, Ken and I had a relationship that transcended mere friendship. We were so opposite, but so complementary, [...]
Read moreCompassion, Faith, Grace, Love
Regeneration
November 2, 2009
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A friend posted this short video on Facebook and it’s too precious, timely and relevant to pass up. As you listen, may God mercifully and lovingly wound you in order to heal you. It’s by Paul Washer, who I first mentioned in a blog back in March (see God Is Not Passive). His burden for [...]
Read more The Gift of Mercy
August 4, 2009
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Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts.
Read moreThe Church in D Pod
July 26, 2009
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This Sunday, like most Sundays, I will be fellowshipping with the “Church in D Pod” at the local jail. D Pod is a unit housing around a hundred men, and God has been pouring out his new wine in an exciting way among those inmates. A couple of months ago, I started shifting my focus [...]
Read more Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
June 17, 2009
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As I struggle with an autoimmune condition called systemic sclerosis, I have begun to understand chronic fatigue and how to cope with its effects.
Read moreFellowship and Light
June 1, 2009
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“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he [...]
Read morePastoral Burnout
April 27, 2009
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Sunday afternoon I attended an authentic fire-from-heaven, slain-in-the-spirit, foot stomp’n, Pentecostal Holy Ghost church service with handkerchief-to-wipe-away-the-sweat-on-the-forehead preaching on — believe it or not — pastoral burnout. Although the topic could be viewed as a “downer”, it actually was a great time of refreshing and renewal!
Read moreRick Warren Disavows Support for Prop. 8
April 24, 2009
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This article (see full text here) confirms my worse fears about Rick Warren, who has shown a troubling tendency to fall into the false trap of thinking that “compromise” is “compassion”. Worse still, he then publicly lied about prior comments he made on the issue of “gay marriage”. The great thing about America is we [...]
Read moreWoundedness
April 21, 2009
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On Sunday I taught men in the jail, using Psalms 116:5-7 (ESV), about moving from woundedness to life. I challenged them not to settle for mere comfort when confronting hurt, but to embrace life instead. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, [...]
Read moreChristian, Counseling, Faith, Grace, Healing, Joy, Truth, Woundedness
Sufficient Grace
March 30, 2009
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When I contracted a rare, degenerative autoimmune disease, I began to find sufficient grace – or rather, Sufficient Grace found me. I am forever changed.
Read more Been Hearing God Lately?
March 25, 2009
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Jesus delights in meeting us in the wholeness of our unique humanity.
Read more God Shows Up
February 13, 2009
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As I’ve counseled hundreds of people of the years, I’ve learned that Jesus miraculously heals us when we’re willing to go to and expose to Him those places at the core of our being where wounds, hurts and lies reside.
Read more Essentially Reformed or Hyper-Calvinist?
January 19, 2009
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Why is it that those who most strongly affirm God’s sovereignty deny His ability – His right, if He so pleases – to delegate choice to us?
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- The Mythology of Tithing
- A Hollow Gospel
- Participatory Church
- Rethinking Missions
- Sufficient Grace
- Modern Day Pauls?
- Ordained to Fail
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 3)
- Pimping the Gospel
- Does Jesus Want You to Vote?
- God in a Box
- Sufficient Grace, Part III
- Fathers and Teachers
- Peeking Through the Cracks
- “Us” and “Them”
- Is There Not a Cause?
- Millennials and Old Farts
- The Fierceness of God
- Sufficient Grace, Part II
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