“Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak…” ~ 1Cor 14:34 / “I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.” ~ 1Timothy 2:12  I am not a golfer-really my slice or splice is rather dangerous-and when I walked onto […]

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Recently Megan became facebook friends with an old acquaintance from college. They were not close during school, but Megan was happy to see she had three little boys. She also had a blog, so Megan began to read her articles. The first one was a long lament on the first sin in the garden of […]

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I know that this week I promised to discuss women in the ministry, but an event of such glory has arisen I could not but tell the tale. The story begins with a simple game of veggie target, but soon the spit and blood had created an epic saga. Young Lucy was pitted against the […]

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“Jeesssus”~ School is a good thing, but we often transfer our experience there to the church. We begin to believe answers – knowing the right answers – is the key to Christianity. Of course right answers are important (“Jesus” often is the answer!), but truth is not found unless it is lived! Last night our […]

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  As we look toward the summer I want to give you a chance to check out our camp speaker. Her name is Jeniffer Dake (no I am not misspelling her name, it seems her parents wanted her to be unique). The first time we spoke she called on the phone and said, “Hey I […]

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