Chipping away

(This was first posted May 5, 2010) We want to do huge magnificent works of passionate loving action. We want to have a significant impact. We want to do something massive that will transform the world. We want to focus all of our energy into something amazing. That’s what we want to do. Instead, we […]

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God hears.

I told you about the email letter I’m using. The other day, I got this comment: I want to know if God really hears me. I feel that he does, and that he sends signs letting me know I’m okay when I pray for him to stay with me and keep me safe, but I […]

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Thanks, God, for these readers.

I’m talking about you this morning. I just wanted to let you know that. I’m talking to a group of people from non-profits in the Fort Wayne (IN) area about social media and I’m talking about you. I’ll tell them about how grateful I am for your interaction and reading and challenges and, in some cases, […]

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Monday again.

When Martha walked to see Jesus, there was no question that her brother was dead. Four days in the grave in a culture where burial happened the same day as death, where the body was wrapped. This was not a simple “he’s asleep”, a mistaken diagnosis. Some of the other times that Jesus had resurrected […]

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I want to listen

We’ve got a cell phone remembering challenge in our church services right now. Three times in four weeks. Once with the person unable to figure out how to make it stop. (None of them have been quite as odd as the rooster crowing ringer that went off awhile back when I was preaching. I was […]

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