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Joseph’s Story
Every day, Joseph rose before dawn…to pray. “Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.”…“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God…The Lord is one.” Joseph was following Yahweh, serving Israel’s God. His father Jacob had taught him this early morning devotion. The two of them had a carpentry business in the rocky region of Galilee, where wood was Continue reading
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Why a Christian Must Believe All the Bible
It seems so logical to many to declare that we can’t believe all the Scriptures. After all, some parts are so hopelessly outdated…and we just know that we can’t say “Yea and amen” to everything we read. Of course, “God is love”, and we should not “…judge, lest we be judged,” but most everything else Continue reading
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Lessons From the Bike Trail: A Sunday Night Surprise, Part 2
(FYI, Part 1 is here) Two days into the broken ribs adventure, my right lung collapsed (in doctor’s lingo, a pneumo-thorax). Later, the trauma surgeon would surmise that it truly began at the time of the accident on Sunday evening, but the actual collapse and thus the symptoms didn’t show up until about 30 hours Continue reading
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The Prayer That Shapes You
They say environment shapes you, so when possible, choose your environment carefully. If you can get in, Harvard sounds amazing, but if a disproportionate percentage of professors there are atheists, why not just pick another school? But it’s not just environment that shapes us – prayer shapes us too. Now that’s not the primary thing Continue reading
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The Kind of Praying that Changes the World
I saw a prayer motto in a church years ago that struck me as right…and WRONG: “Prayer changes me.” OK…sure. Of course, praying changes me. And for the record, I need to be changed. But the sign seemed to suggest something else – that I shouldn’t expect answers to my prayers – I should just expect to be Continue reading
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Homecoming for Ken
Shortly before Christmas of 1991, I asked him the single most important question I would ever ask anybody: “Will you give me the hand of your daughter in marriage?” Thankfully, Ken said…yes, he would. And so, with his blessing, I got down on one knee before Diane Therese Fenske on Christmas Eve. (She said yes, Continue reading
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20 Quotes from Prayer Changes Things
I love good quotes about prayer. They motivate me, and I’ve put different ones on my prayer lists through the years to help me pray. Last time I put my favorite quotes from a recent book on prayer, Enjoy Your Prayer Life, and I promised I would follow up with a list from another short Continue reading
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The Immense Importance of Talking to Yourself During these Coronavirus Days
Walking through these days of Covid-19, we are wise to follow the example of David in Psalm 116:7. He wrote… Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. (ESV) In this beautiful moment recorded for all history, the shepherd-King David…is talking to himself. And his message to himself Continue reading
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Pastoral Prayer During the Pandemic
Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash I led the pastoral prayer this past weekend at Edgewood, and I have included it below for those who might be inclined to use it once or twice for personal prayer during these challenging times. There are so many things to pray for these days. Yes, safety and health…of course. But in Continue reading
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