Almost exactly 22 years ago, I took my first sabbatical. I was a 34-year-old pastor, and the staff was getting our first-ever round of extended time off…
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You probably wouldn’t say that God is male specifically, but what does your mental image look like?
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Five years ago Kellie and I moved up to the North Carolina mountains just outside of Blowing Rock. It was a homecoming of sorts for me…
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“Thin places.” The term is often applied to geographic locations that feel particularly sacred…
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This morning I was reading about a simple practice for discerning God’s direction in murky situations.…
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For contemporary Christians the word “religion” often has negative connotations…
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I pulled out my journal as the plane leveled out from its ascent and settled into a three-hour flight home…
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Renewal calls us to train our souls by moving beyond a dualistic worldview. What’s that?
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When is the last time you felt physically exhausted? Go ahead, think back until you find that moment…
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Jeromy phoned from the house we call The Briar Patch. “Well, they sold me the wrong breaker,” he started. Argh.
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He asked how my soul was doing today. My reply: “99% good.” Several hours later, the manure had hit the fan…
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I remember my most enduring prayer as a boy: Lord, I want to hear your voice…
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A few days ago I drove up to one of our Airbnb properties and couldn’t believe my eyes!
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God can be pretty tough to figure out sometimes. I wonder if God likes it that way.…
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Most of us know the experience of getting spread too wide and too thin—finding ourselves in a place of inner depletion where it feels like the grace has run dry…
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We have just witnessed the conclusion to a bitter political struggle in the 2020 presidential election, and the aftershocks keep rolling…
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A few days ago I woke up around midnight with roiling emotions. It wasn’t a personal conflict, but I felt conflicted about a set of relationships in my life…
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There is little more polarizing in our modern culture than the political scene. As Christians, we must find another way—the way of love…
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