I will never forget a life-changing encounter with the Lord. I’d been a Christian for only a few years, was still single and living in an apartment in North Carolina. One night, awakened from a deep sleep, I found myself jumping up from my bed and shouting, “I’m just looking…
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"You talk about Jesus Christ?" the woman in the brothel asked. I told her that I did. "Make my sister walk," she said, pointing to a woman sitting on the floor. "That is my sister. She hasn’t walked in four years. And for the last 15 days she hasn’t moved…
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“You are the light of the world—like a city on ahilltop that cannot be hidden." (Matthew 5:14) So, here we are...Americans divided along ideological and political lines. We are divided on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, over how to deal with a crumbling economy, the mortgage crisis, health care,…
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Pilate had a problem. The Jewish leaders kept bringing Jesus Christ before him and demanding his crucifixion. He could not find any justification for it, but he needed to keep the peace between the Jewish people and the Roman government. Pilate's brief interrogation of Jesus brought little clarity to the…
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“Whiplash” often describes the emotions I go through as a pastor. Recently, I experienced a whiplash day. Let me give a little back-story to help you understand. Over the course of the past two years, Brandi and I have had two sets of friends who experienced the loss of a…
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For most of us, to see is to believe. The thought never crossed my mind that I could come to love Jesus more than any other living soul on the planet until I saw someone cloaked in flesh and blood actually do it. Her name was Marge Caldwell. Until then,…
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On March 7, 2007, my life changed completely with one, simple, misplaced step and a fall down the stairs resulting in vertigo and brain injury induced short-term memory loss. Some would say it changed for the worse, and by human standards they would be entirely right. Fortunately, and I can…
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Most of us care. We really do. We care about our own lives, for sure, and also about the lives of those around us. We care about poverty and injustice, about orphans and the sick. We care about the folks who live and work alongside us and about what happens…
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I have always, by the grace of God, been intrigued by the tensions created in scripture, so I’ve dug and asked questions and been tenacious about pursuing understanding. If, however, I step back and truly gain the perspective that God is the Alpha and the Omega, who has always been…
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