“Santa is just white… Jesus was a white man too.” – Megyn Kelly, Fox News Twenty-four Hour Cable News should cause all of us to pause – no matter your channel of preference – and ponder if news anchors have any idea what they are talking about. Not that anyone is purposely spouting lies, but […]

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The tree is up, I ate my morning cereal in a Christmas bowl, and the girls are playing with the Little People Nativity. It is strange to look around the house, prepared for Christmas, and remember God was born in a barn. That a teenager gave birth among animals and the world’s savior was laid […]

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On Sunday I mentioned the Atlantic Monthly article which declared the apple core to be a myth. The picture is two-thirds of the way through my test apple, which confirmed there is no core to an apple. For years I have been wasting 30% of every apple… but more amazingly I never questioned the mistaken […]

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Expectation The question always came. We would walk into the church and Joey would ask, “What is God teaching you?” or “How is God is using you?” or… It didn’t matter if I was thirteen or thirty-three, Joey asked, and he expected an answer. It became part of church reality for me, so on the […]

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Bloomberg Businessweek arrived in the church’s mail a few weeks ago. I asked how we got the magazine, but Ellen and Dana assumed I had placed the order. Which made me wonder if a church member was hoping to hear business world illustrations in my sermons. The ploy has not worked, but I do flip […]

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