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March Madness

Well, it’s a great day…I set up my just for fun pool once again. It’s time to put on your prognostication pinstripes and pick your poison in the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. Each year, infants through old folks, experts and clueless folks alike join my …

Tinkering

Thanks a lot for the many comments and ongoing conversation! I’m tinkering tonight with the format; moving the comments to another page, maybe even a pop up. I still have the original version saved, so let me know in the comments if you like old …

Exemplary suffering

Matt is raising amazingly thoughtful questions in the comments, and frankly, has made this blog worthwhile for me because of it. Let me reframe a little bit, thanks to Matt’s prodding. Christians need people like the Pope and others to model suffering for us. It’s …

Humility 101

I probably shouldn’t do this, but I got an unsolicited e-mail today that just appalled me, so I thought I’d share it with y’all. Can you imagine actually hawking (is that the right way to spell it? Or is it hocking?) yourself like this? It’s …

Why? We don’t know!

Here’s a link to the message I gave yesterday at NFC, from Acts chapter 12. 2nd service was another powerful experience of God. A man stood and very vulnerably shared his depression, even suicidal thoughts. The heartfelt response of people to pray for him, and …

Graceful suffering

Seeing graceful suffering reminds us that the fabric of our world, the lifeblood of redemption, comes through the willful suffering of God in Jesus Christ. The victory and vindication of God is not in glorious, overcoming power, but through redemptive, love-incarnated suffering. Thanks, Matt and …

Vicarious suffering

Over lunch today, I was reading the latest Newsweek; in particular, an article about Pope John Paul II. I know virtually nothing about the Pope and Catholicism, but this article caught my attention, because it has to do in part with the value of suffering. …