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The need to review

I’m finding, as I age and as I multi-task and multi-think and multi-network, that I remember less and less. This is a pain. Sometimes, of course, it’s not critical to my work. For example, I forgot where Argentina was until

Posted in bible reading, psalms

when the baby has enough.

A hungry baby is a terrible thing. First comes whimpering. Then crying. Then a screaming that consumes the child’s whole body. Long before danger of starvation, the child makes sure that there is no one within earshot that has any question about a

Posted in prayer, psalms

more than watchmen waiting.

You are waiting. You aren’t sure what’s happening. You can’t see to the end of today. And you are waiting. It reminds you of that summer before your senior year of high school, the summer that you worked third shift.

Posted in prayer, psalms, trust

But sometimes it’s hard to go to church.

Responding to this survey, one of you asked: What do you do if you don’t like to go to church on Sunday mornings? What do you do if every time you try and go to church the service makes you

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Posted in community, dear Jon, psalms

Psalm 1.

When you pick up a book of poetry or a book of song lyrics, you have to work. You cannot read Gerard Manley Hopkins or W.H. Auden or Bono the same way you read Malcolm Gladwell or Donald Miller. With

Posted in disciple, following, psalms
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