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  • My heart is broken and troubled. I don't think it was a good idea to eat that one pound block of cheese tonight. . . . No, I didn't really eat a pound of cheese tonight. And my ticker is okay as far as I know--in the…

  • How is it the more I go to seminary the less I seem to know about God? As my eyes are being opened to the fullness of God, the gap between what I know and what there is to know grows wider and wider. Such is the nature…

  • Time to celebrate: I've been promoted. I was the assistant children's pastor. Now, by default, I'm the head children's pastor. A week on the job and in seminary, and already a promotion. This is just about the wor…

  • If life were plotted like a movie, you'd have the hope that all the crap that's happened to you during the first two acts would be neatly wrapped up and resolved in the third. You'd get the girl you needed to complete y…

  • To my brothers and sisters at NCA, to the people who've left words of sympathy here: thanks. The family of blood we have on earth is only temporal. Lines rise and fall and come to pass. The family of the blood of Chr…

  • Mark 5:38-40a,41-42 When they came to the house of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not d…

  • Grandma Got Run Over by an Aneurysm The respirator releases a nasal whistle in time with the mechanical staccato of the pump. Monitors are flashing. IV's are dripping. All sorts of machines are beeping or humming. T…

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