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Ian

Wise Wisdom

Psalm 119:121–128, 1 Kings 3:16–28, James 3:13–18 ‌James’ words should sit deeply with us. His words should shape our conversations and even our thoughts. Let’s also be clear, humility and wisdom in conduct and speech is rarely celebrated. Most celebrities, from actors to CEOs to…

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Enduring Soil

4 Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from every city, he said in a parable: 5 “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and birds from the sky…

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Hanging on by a strand

Seth Godin recently posted the following… There are three strands, present for most everyone: Power (sometimes seen as status, or the appearance of status) Safety (survival and peace of mind) Meaning (hope and the path forward) The changes in our media structure, public health and…

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Know Yourself. Know Your Idol.

The two latest tragedies that are in front of me are the school shooting in Texas, and the abuse scandal unraveling in another Christian denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Both are incredibly painful. They should be. They are another example of how humanity has fallen…

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Movie About a Christian

Read: Luke 9:18–50 One of the reasons I love and appreciate the concept of the “church year” is that we are often confronted by the hard passages, especially those that often make no sense to our post-enlightenment (i.e., science- and data-driven) minds. This is, as…

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