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Monday Morning Pastor-Back
Frank: Did you see the tail-gating going on before the service started? Dandy Don: I did, Frank. The hubbub from the conversation was filling the whole place, it seemed. Howard: As I perambulated...
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Lifestyles of the Rich and… Spiritual? Really? I don’t think so.
Well, it’s come to this. The church in this land has stooped fallen so low that it’s featuring certain charlatans pastors who are so fabulous, so wealthy, so pop-star famous they need their own reality...
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Some Days Are Harder Than Others…
…and here’s why. This post from just over two years ago talks about a particularly difficult Sunday: Mondays. Ugh. Usually, Mondays aren’t a terrible bother for me; at least, not in the way our...
View ArticleIf I Could Be Like Anybody, It Would Be…
I once would have answered that question, ‘Chuck Swindoll.’ That was back in the days of seminary training and longing to become a ‘famous’ preacher. Well, okay; I had no aspirations of being famous,...
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Monday Morning Pastor-back
Advent is in full swing. Carols are being sung right and left. And the children sang in the Worship Service yesterday. What a fine job they did. No performances. No dramas. Definitely no bathrobe...
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Monday Morning Pastor-back
The wind sweeps the snow off the flat roof like the waves of the sea crashing upon the shore. What was once a beautiful layer of light, finely shaped flakes of snow, once dashed upon the sidewalk below...
View ArticleThe Blessings of Longevity
I’ve been serving as the pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church since November of 1997. That’s 17 years for you who might not be proficient at math. My 18th ‘anniversary’ is fast approaching. I...
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More Blessings! More Blessings!
Today, I want to mention just one blessing out of the many which I’ve found coming from the longevity of staying in one place as a pastor: learning the definition of blessing. ‘What are you talking...
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You’re So Common and Ordinary
Chinese symbols for ordinary and common They both uttered the words. ‘I will.’ Adoringly, they each repeated the phrases, ‘I take you…’ The joy of pronouncing them husband and wife was received and...
View ArticleAnniversaries Quietly Unobserved
in August, 1985, Ann & I moved into a small house in Polk City, Iowa to begin a one-year internship at the Evangelical Free Church of Polk City. Twenty-nine years laters, I’m still pastoring. On...
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