Category: Love
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The Best Preaching
“And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’” –Matthew 25:40 Later this week, Lori and I go for Code Blue training. The organization sponsoring that event focuses on the care Read more
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More Like Jesus, Week 5–Changing Our Plans
“Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’’’ –Mark 5:30 A number of years ago, Lori and I were sitting in a speech therapist’s office with one of our children. We had been there for a series of sessions and most weeks, the same woman sat with her daughter in the Read more
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The Gift of Sight
“And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored.”–Acts 9:18a This week marks one year since my retirement. The past twelve months have brought all kinds of adjustments and nearly all of them good ones. Yet the anniversary has also caused me to think back on the blur of activity Read more
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Perfect Love
“See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.”–I John 3:1a Years ago, I was talking with a woman who owned a furniture store in the small town of my first pastorate. As a couple who lived in church-owned housing, but had Read more
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Just What We Need
“Jesus said to them, ‘Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some.’ So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish.”—John 21:6 I met my wife at a hospital. I wasn’t a patient, but was taking a Read more
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Loving like Ellie
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”–1 Corinthians 13:13 When I was in high school, our church had a pastor named Ellie who worked primarily with teenagers. Ellie was probably in his mid 50s when he began to serve at our congregation. Since I was 14 Read more