Anyone who knows me well knows that I am an emotionally complex guy. (My wife will be the first to testify.) I can vacillate wildly between hope and despair, joy…
andrewarndtJuly 12, 2017
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Well, here we are approaching the end of another year. And that means, among other things, the annual recap of…
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I sat by the bedside of a dear friend of mine last night. Barely 24 hours removed from a multiple-bypass open heart surgery, he was in excruciating pain. We had…
andrewarndtJune 28, 2017
One of the saddest things I routinely encounter as a pastor is the reality that most people’s prayer lives hover somewhere between barely-hanging-on and utterly non-existent. That is sad because…
andrewarndtJune 16, 2017
“Son of man,” the Lord asked the prophet Ezekiel, many centuries ago, “Can these bones live?” These bones that represented the waste and devastation that had become Israel; Israel, that…
andrewarndtJune 5, 2017
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…
andrewarndtApril 17, 2017
“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…
andrewarndtApril 12, 2017
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…
andrewarndtMarch 21, 2017
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…
andrewarndtMarch 1, 2017
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