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When my friend Danny spoke poorly of someone in the presence of his dad, his dad would say quickly and firmly, “Danny, watch your mouth!” The Lord said pretty much the same thing...
I once worked for a company when one of the long-serving mid-level managers retired. His departure was missed, but almost immediately, everyone began to speculate on his replacement.
Today is Maundy Thursday. No, it’s not “Monday Thursday,” which I thought I heard as a child and which made no sense...
I joined the line of married men. A line of black suits, white shirts, scuffed black shoes. The scuffed shoes, I mused, must symbolize their many years of attending church. Maybe the older...
In yesterday’s reflection, I began thinking about what it means to pray “May your Kingdom come soon.” I explained that the teaching...
Several years ago, we bought a pack of twelve plastic "Resurrection Eggs” filled with various symbols representing key moments in the Easter story. We worried the eggs could be a little cheesy, but...
The message and ministry of Jesus was centered in the kingdom of God. At the beginning of Mark’s Gospel, for example, Jesus begins preaching “God’s Good News.” Here’s the central message: “The time.....
I’ll never forget the first time I had a boss apologize to me. I was floored. But it changed our relationship. His transparency forged a bond of trust that made me want to...
*This is part 2 of the Laity Leadership Institute Missional series with Senior Fellow Darrell Guder, who is the Princeton Theological Seminary...
We enter into a vocation with high hopes. But after years go by, it can turn into a daily grind and we...
The great twentieth-century author J.R.R. Tolkien did not like intentional or conscious allegory. Certainly his fantastic writings do not lend themselves to...
Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon.” Luke 11:2 For those of us who have grown up praying the Lord’s...
"What's your 5-year strategy?" Bradley asked. ...
Somehow it happens. Between listening to bedtime stories and skinned knees and first dates and college and a wedding, and then you’re the mom telling bedtime stories and kissing skinned knees and going...
In 1982, when I was a sophomore at Baylor University, Tony Campolo spoke at a state-wide gathering of Christian college students. By the end of his sermon, provincial scales had fallen from my...
