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“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” –Hebrews 13:8 During two summers of my college years, I worked as a bank teller. It was an enjoyable experience that taught me a great deal about how to relate well to a diversity of people. I liked my co-workers…

“I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.” –John 5:30b I got my answer. Some of you may recall one of my first blog entries entitled “The Nudge.” That January post told of a trip Lori and I took to New Mexico…

“Why were you searching for me?  Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”      –Luke 2:49 In the spring before the start of seminary, I traveled to Great Britain for nearly two weeks. It was my first trip overseas and I enjoyed it immensely. I saw…

“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done.”–Luke 22:40  In June, I had lunch with a dear friend who has come through a major health crisis.  A dynamic leader, he began having unexplained symptoms two years ago when he was…

“First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.” –Luke 7:5 A friend named Ellen told me of the moment her father met his eventual son-in-law. She was 19 and Leon was 21. The year…

“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” –Revelation 3:16 The words above come from the last of seven letters to a first-century church.  Each letter was shared by John as part of Revelation, but unlike the other…

“I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.” –John 15:16b  For the first three years after college, I worked for the Bell System in North Carolina. As an undergraduate economics major, my goal had been to climb the corporate ladder and in those days AT&T was…