“Oooooh, you shouldn’t have done that.” Almost all of us have had that thought race through our heads at one time or another. Most people have one or two moments in their lives that bring to them thoughts of shame and a fear of that one moment being exposed to others. Even pastors. There’s probably […]
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Tags : Andy Lopez, beginnings, courage, cowardice, culture, culture of violence, Eric Garner, Fallujah, Fear, fear cowardice, Ferguson, forgiveness, gospel, grace, hard question, issues, leadership, lectionary, Mark, mercy, Michael Brown, protest, question, responsibility, shame, Sheriff, Staten Island, truth
To make a clean break is, for most of us, is something we’d like to do every now and then. The temptation is to think that if we could just start something again that we’d get it right, that we’d do better this time. Those of us ion the debtor class, which in America is […]
Tags : 40 days, bankruptcy, buried, clean break, deceptions, enough, forgiveness, lent, lies, lottery, temptation
Most of us would have to confess that we really do not think that people get up in the morning planning to do evil in the world. Most of us, at least, can admit that it is really only broken people who are even capable of planning to do evil, and that the rest of […]
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Jesus does not come into our houses in order to make us feel good. I know that’s a challenging statement to those of us who have had Him in our hearts for long enough to feel comfortable with having Him there, but the fact of the matter is having Jesus come into your life is […]
Tags : applecart, confession, darkness, death, Dia de los Muertos, divorce, Fear, fight, forgiveness, grace, hospital sick room, misery, sinner, tic-tac, Zacchaeus
(Credit where credit is due, I was quite inspired by the work of Michael Horton and his book Christless Christianity. If you are looking to feel convicted as a preacher, read it. Thanks to him for a couple of quotes) We seem to have lost our fear, somewhere along the way. It vanished under the […]
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How do you tell people that they are dead? They don’t look dead, for the most part; and they don’t think of themselves as dead, for the most part. In fact, most people don’t think that the lives that they lead are at all deficient, or lacking, or somehow broken, and if you manage to […]
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