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Sticks and Stones
In: christianity| church
2 Feb 2010Let me start by saying that using this image made me really, really uncomfortable. I HATE that word and it upsets me when people use it. Hopefully it makes you uncomfortable too.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
We all know that saying. I would argue that most reasonable people [...]
The Dream
In: christianity| church
18 Jan 2010In June of 1963, two months before Dr. King led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, he took part in a smaller yet equally important event in my home town, Detroit. Dr. King leading the Freedom March down Woodward Avenue and delivering his “Speech at the Great March of Detroit” -which incidently previewed [...]
On Being the Church
In: christianity| church| faith
16 Nov 2009Most people my age can recall with absolute certainty where they were the morning of September 11, 2001. For my parents’ generation, almost everyone can give you the details of where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. Me? I can remember everything about the night of November 4, 1980, the night Ronald Reagan was elected [...]
Are We The Church?
6 Aug 2009I spent the better part of today at my church, The Woods, watching a simulcast of this year’s Leadership Summit hosted by Willow Creek Community Church. I had a lot of take-aways and challenging thoughts as I walked out of the auditorium this evening and have decided to take a little break from the Gospel [...]
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Standing Accused
In: Luke| christian living| christianity
22 Jun 2009I’m at the end of my read though Luke. I thought I would be blogging about the crucifixion today, but as I re-read chapters 22-24 this evening I was really taken by chapter 23 verse 5: “But they insisted, ‘He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and [...]
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