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Living the Perfect Life
Imagine living a life where you never messed up, where everything you did was right and true. Imagine living a life where you never sinned. Such a life would be full of peace and joy. And we know why, right? Because sin causes such pain, doesn’t it? Just think back to the Holidays that weren’t… Continue reading
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The Leader We Long For
I can’t decide if I’m glad or sad that 2015 is not an election year. There is a tinge of sadness because I like the drama of politics, and I enjoy watching the polls and the races. It’s a bit like a sports event to me, except certainly more monumental and important. But I’m glad… Continue reading
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Reputation Management
Ever heard of the phrase “reputation management”? It’s something we all engage in to one degree or another – we want to manage the way others view us, make sure they see us from our good side, not our bad, and as a result there are subtleties in how we communicate. Social Media provides an… Continue reading
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A Highly Motivating and Not-Often Considered Reason to Read and Meditate on Scripture Regularly
There are so many reasons to read and meditate on the Bible, but one that I had not much considered came clear to me some years ago when I was reading a book of essays called, Renewing Your Mind in a Secular World, edited by John Woodbridge. The chapter in the book which grabbed my… Continue reading
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Burke 175, Walker 3: Exit Polling in the Inner City, Part 2
This is part 2. Part 1 is here. And so it happened that at 6:45 a.m., Madam Election Official (I’m chagrined to say I never got her name) understandably didn’t have time to deal with a superfluous exit pollster like me. She was busy setting up voting machines and organizing her team, and when I… Continue reading
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Exit Pollster in the Inner City – My Election Day Story
I’ll bet my Election Day was more interesting than yours: while you were busy going to work and voting (of course!), I was hanging out in the inner city of Milwaukee as an exit pollster. Here’s my story: Two years ago I began my second career surveying exiting voters in Madison for Edison Research. Edison is the national organization that… Continue reading
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How to Find Restoration in the Midst of a Broken Life
“Rog, we’ve decided not to send you to the Philippines. We wanted to send someone who was actually…walking with God.” The words of my Navigator leader Dave Ostendorf stung pretty deeply. Had it really come to this? My good friend Carl Bergstrom and I had been slated to be summer missionaries to the Philippines in… Continue reading
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This Should Be Obvious
It was a few years ago that my son Josh and I read a trilogy of books by Ted Dekker. In the mythical universe of Black, Red and White, mankind is divided into two groups. One group follows the God Elyon and the other group rejects him outright. They will not worship him or follow… Continue reading
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The Two Great Lies of Satan
According to Jesus in John 8:44, Satan is a “liar and the father of lies,” and I think he tells two whoppers with amazing regularity. First, Satan steadily whispers to non-believers: “Things are honky – dory between you and God.” This is a lie, of course, because they are under His wrath for their sin. (…whoever does… Continue reading
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