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Archive for December, 2007

Merry Christmas

Posted in Christmas on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

“Tonight’s the night the world begins again.”  -Goo Goo Dolls, Better Days
The lights, the shopping, the children waiting to open their gifts, the family gatherings and the 24-hour repeat of “A Christmas Story” on TBN… that’s all… fine.  The sentiment that we sometimes still sense — the sparkling snow covering the ground, the Christmas carols, [...]

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Pain

Posted in Glory, Journey, Longing, Salvation, tagged , , , on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

“I would rather be broken in Your hands than whole in barren lands.” I penned these words some time ago, when brokenness seemed to me to be a place more of refuge than of desertion. Now that I think about it, brokenness wasn’t a defining thing for me then; rather, it was that [...]

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Hear This

Posted in Healing, Invitation, Love, tagged , on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My wife has this amazing gift. It shows itself most notably when we are in the checkout line at Wal-Mart. I’ve seen it happen a hundred times. We’ll push our cart loaded with groceries up to the conveyor belt, and I (being the man, of course) will begin unloading the items from [...]

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Coming to a Standstill

Posted in Discipleship, Remembering, tagged on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The past 36 hours have brought another major ice storm in the midwest, and half the metropolis area where my wife and I live has been without electricity. Trees are down, roads are iced and blocked. We are staying with family members that still have intermittent power.
With everything coming to a standstill, it [...]

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How Good is the News?

Posted in Grace, tagged , , , , on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

You are worse off than you ever dared to imagine, but God loves you more than you ever dared to hope.
-Manhattan church planter Tim Keller
I’ve been taking a look a bit at the life of Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer who many of us know of as the murderer who cannibalized his victims. [...]

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Postmodern Depression

Posted in Discipleship, Postmodernism, Salvation on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Over the last few hundred years, popular culture in various ways has dictated to the mass populations of the world their idea of the way things were, the way things worked, and the ultimate truth in life. Scientific study sprouted out of a new-found way of discovering and disseminating tangible reality, and empirical research allowed [...]

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