The way some people talk about growth in resurrection life, you’d think it all happens in a day. When I was a kid, from time to time, traveling preachers would…
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures…” So said the Apostle Paul in…
I sat at a picnic table in the backyard of my parents’ house last summer on a gorgeous Wisconsin summer morning. It was my birthday (July 26), and I was…
She came up to me after a service one Sunday night. Tears in her eyes, trembling, she was still holding the sacrament in her fingers--a bit of bread, soggy and…
Hi everyone-- Not being on social media this year, I have no idea who (if anyone) will read this. I think I have subscribers, however... so maybe it'll be you…
Hi friends-- I'm sitting in the study in my parents' house on a gorgeous Wisconsin December afternoon (rare but real). The snow is glistening, the sun is shining, the house…
The writer of Ecclesiastes said, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning” (7:8). He might have also added something about how of the making of blogs…
(NOTE: This post is part of a series of posts I’ve been doing talking about the art and craft of preaching on this, the 10th anniversary of my own preaching…
(NOTE: this post is part of a series of posts I’m doing reflecting on the task and calling of preaching on this, the 10th anniversary of my own preaching ministry……
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