It’s Memorial Day weekend.In thinking about church and preaching, I always try to do something significant about remembering, sacrifice, and love.For many in today’s culture, Memorial Day has lost its meaning. It is too little about remembering and memorials. It is too much about the first long weekend of summer and going to the lake …
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It’s Sunday Again: Measuring Life?
A long time ago in another millennium, I read a book that changed the way I have looked at life across almost five decades. The book is The Compulsive Christian by David Mason, first edition 1969. Our society tends to measure life by what we have or by what we do. Mason reminds that God’s …
It’s Sunday Again: Will Anything Surprising Happen Today?
We don’t know what to do with God! We want to control him, box him, understand him. We want our Christianity in neat, little, predictable packages. We want a Holy Spirit under control. We are so committed to “decently and in order” that we limit God. Christianity is a personal treasure hunt! Treasure hunts are …
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It’s Sunday Again: Two Basic Choices
Life is filled with choices. A few choices are basic! Once they are made, they provide the foundation for the rest of life’s choices. If the foundational choices are not made in place, the rest of life is a constant struggle. Let me be specific. Here are two foundational questions that provide orientation for the …
It’s Sunday Again: Two Things
The movie “City Slickers” popularized the concept that life can be defined by the “one thing.” The Bible more often speaks of two things. Jesus said, “Love God, love your neighbor” (Matt. 22:34, and parallels). John says the one who is of God practices righteousness and loves his brother (1 John 3:10). John adds that …
It’s Sunday Again: Sololá, Guatemala
Today I will worship with the believers in Sololá, Guatemala. I will have the privilege of delivering God´s word, but always the fellowship shared as the church assembles, sings, prays, and surrounds the Table is delightful. Pray for God´s people around the world, many of whom assemble in relatively remote places to worship God, to …
It’s Sunday Again: God and his ice
With freezing rain falling all day and ice-laden limbs hanging low in our yard, Jan and I spent all of yesterday indoors. We commented more than once on the beauty of God’s creation and the picturesque scenes God was creating. This morning those same scenes are still amazing–even though much less visible with the moonlight, …
It’s Sunday Again: Another Week, Principles for Life
I do not like the change that some calendar publishers have popularized. Especially on calendars designed for the business world, the week begins on Monday and the weekend is an afterthought in the far right-hand box–usually including both Saturday and Sunday in one box. (I suppose that six boxes saves money over seven boxes.) Think …
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It’s Sunday Again: Back to ‘Normal’
After five consecutive Sundays of international travels and time away from Park Plaza, today I am ‘at home.’ In October I worshiped and preached at a house church in Chile with no more than 30 present; last week I was at an area-wide worship assembly in Guatemala City with almost 4000 present on Sunday morning. …
It’s Sunday Again: Home and Family
Yesterday I wrote about home and family. This morning we are traveling and are “away from home.” As we prepare to worship with the family of God, I am thinking about how the reflections I wrote yesterday apply to God’s family and our spiritual home. Our spiritual home is usually defined most sharply by our …