Some circumstances make it difficult for us to know how to pray. There is a prayer that anyone, anywhere, at any time can pray and be confident that God has heard and will answer. Like most prayer, the words are not as important as the attitude of heart that expresses it. Whenever Jesus prayed it, […]
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Yesterday was a watershed day for me and our congregation as I announced in the Sunday morning services some changes in my role at Bridgewood Community Church. After nearly sixteen years of having the honor of being Bridgewood’s founding and senior pastor, I will be handing off the baton of senior leadership on May 16,
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I must confess I have hated tailgaters. I ‘m not talking about tailgaters as in party-before-the-football-game type people. I’m talking about people who make it a practice of driving in their vehicle too closely behind me. Yes I know that followers of Jesus are not supposed to hate anyone, not even our enemies. But I would like to invent an electronic digital sign to place on the rear of my car that could be activated at just such a time that says “BACK OFF!”
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As I was walking out of Target yesterday I passed a man coming into the store that gave me a look of hesitant recognition. He was about to say something to me but then simply passed on by. I didn’t recognize him. But it was one of those moments when I rifled through the file
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This year I’ll join all the other leading-edge Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) in turning sixty-four. It’s ironic and disconcerting that the Beatles song When I’m Sixty-Four about getting “old and loosing my hair many years from now” is now, and my reality. How could the class of ’64 now be 64? I have thought a
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