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Article 17
Consuming Religion We live in a culture that tells us our goal in life is to consume. We’re constantly looking for things that are newer and better, even if the things we have work just fine....
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Scar-friendly Places
Posted originally by Baptist News Global - Perspectives on February 11, 2015 Scars have a bad reputation. They’re branded as the bullies on the playground, the bad apples in the barrel, the “Debbie...
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What! You too?
I have always felt a bit of guilt regarding my prayer life. My words rarely seem deep enough, or thoughtfully composed enough; or my prayers were so distracted especially during that listening part...
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Every Need
Psalm 34:19 (NLT) stresses that “The righteous face many troubles , but the Lord rescues them from each and every one.” People have all kinds of problems. Mostly, we are reminded to pray for those...
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The Week After Easter
What do you do the day after everything changes?This Monday, I walked into our sanctuary and sat for a while. The sanctuary felt much different than the day before. Sunday’s glorious music had given...
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Hi I'm Logan...
Sometime in the fall of 2010 one of my former youth named McKenna, 19 at the time, approached me after a game of ultimate frisbee and said “Hey, I’ve been thinking I need to get into a program or...
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Over the past six months or so, I’ve decided that I need to do a better job of listening to my African American brothers and sisters. Not the kind of listening where you’re trying to think of a...
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That's What Friends Are For
The year: 1986. The place: freshman dorm on the campus of Ouachita Baptist University. The song: “Friends”You know the words, “And friends are friends forever if the Lord’s the Lord of them . . ....
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Fixer-Upper
Cindy and I don’t watch a lot of television anymore. But we record and watch a program called “Fixer Upper” all the time. On this program they buy tired old homes and fix them up. Thus the name. In...
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Friendliness
Some of the most wonderful experiences in my life have occurred when I have given to and received friendly greetings from others.Early in my life I was extremely shy. I had a wrong estimate of myself...
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The earth without art is just "eh"
One of God’s greatest gifts to us is our ability to express ourselves. Each of us are unique with gifts exclusive to us. We’re wired differently and use our brains in particular ways. We are...
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The Ministry of Showing Up
People still ask me why I became a minister after a long career as a university teacher and administrator. Some of them graciously acknowledge that I was doing ministry even when my job title was...
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The I AM When I Am Not
I have been reading Parker Palmer’s book “Let Your Life Speak.” Repeatedly as I read the book I thought of Moses and realized how when reading through Moses’ story we see this working of meaning and...
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Do Not Fear
Be afraid…be veeeeeerrrrrrry afraid….. In my opinion, this is the motto of our age, especially if you read it in some quivering, harrowing voice like in horror films. Fear is in the air. We breathe...
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Welcome to the Slow Club
Drop by my house sometime on a morning when we’re trying to get all five members of our family out the door. A sampling of some of the phrases you might hear:“Let’s go!” “Hurry up!” “I already told...
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The Wild
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." - John Muir, The Yosemite, 1912. Ishmael was born...
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Crisis? Bring it!
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world;...
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Churches Need Community, Too
Our church is a part of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Someone asked me, “Why does CBF matter to you?” Here was my answer:Our church is a part of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Someone...
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What the Wind and Fire Say
This past Sunday, 2BCLR joined Christians all over the world in thinking about the first Pentecost, when a fledgling group of Jesus’ disciples received a wild wind from heaven and tongues of fire....
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Any Questions?
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire “Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.” ― Oliver GoldsmithI have a question for you. Do you like questions? I question...
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