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Get up and get out
Your mission today, and every day, (should you choose to accept it), is to get yourself up out of bed and throw yourself out into the world. That’s right: Get up and get out.
What’s your horse?
I have not seen the motion picture, “True Grit,” but I have noticed a few favorable reviews, one of which lauded the moralistic virtue that comes through the film especially embodied in the character of young Maddie. The review quoted … Continue reading
Church after the flood
Yesterday there was an article in the Los Angeles Times about church last Sunday at the First United Methodist Church in Dickinson, Texas. The week before Pastor Jack Matkin had canceled Sunday services due to the growing floodwaters. When the … Continue reading
Love beyond reason
Conflict is an inevitable part of life — a function of being connected to one another. If we were more open to embracing conflict instead of avoiding it we all would be voices of reconciliation, showing those around us that … Continue reading
Close to you
Remember this one by the Carpenters? It should be a theme song for Christians as a reminder of what we want to do with people….celebrate their uniqueness and get close to them. Someone asked what to do with an atheist friend … Continue reading
No longer dodging Jesus
I understand why Marti is asking that I stop avoiding conflict. How can I sing a new song of deliverance to those who have no hope, if, at the same time, I insist on remaining comfortable among those who do? … Continue reading
‘They will in a minute…’
I love the story of the young kindergartener who, when asked by her teacher what she was going to create for her art project proudly announced she was going to draw a picture of God. To which the teacher announced, … Continue reading
Getting in the game
“All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” This famous quote by Edmund Burke is probably one the most important quotes I know of that is not in the Bible. Actually, biblically, it’s not quite right because evil triumphs when God allows it … Continue reading
Not of this world
Much of our confusion over Christianity in America comes from a misunderstanding of our citizenship in two kingdoms and our relative responsibility to each. We occupy and serve two kingdoms, but those kingdoms do not serve each other, and should … Continue reading
The last unreached people group in America
When I asked last night’s BlogTalkRadio guest, Tony Huynh (pronounced “Win”), a millennial seminary student working for a Masters in Theological Studies focusing on race, gender and politics, what he would say to the Boomer generation, he surprised me with … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 