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I never would have imagined that my first Easter as pastor would be preached to an audience of one. I never would have imagined a room full of empty chairs. Easter is normally one of the biggest days of the…

“Perhaps you have heard the story of the bird who was finding a place to nest. A place neither too warm, nor frigidly cold, that was dry and protected him best. Not easy to see from the sky or a…

When I was young, Easter was definitely lower on my list of holiday favorites. How could it compare to opening presents on Christmas morning, or trick or treating at Halloween? Sure, we got Easter baskets with some candy, but growing…

In case you missed it, we are now living in a post-Christian era. Sure, much of the vestiges of our nation’s past embracement of Christianity’s virtues are still here, for now, but the drumbeat of the 60’s sexual revolution is…

When thinking of a word to describe the current cultural and political mood, unity is probably the last word that comes to mind. Factions, tribalism, or dissension would be more fitting. But in the midst of an angry and outraged…

I recently read a shocking statistic from a study by the Barna Research Group that only 9 percent of professing Christians hold to a biblical worldview. It’s no wonder then that today’s Christians show little difference in how they live…

I was recently reading about Jeffrey Dahmer, an American serial killer who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of 17 men and boys. The depths of evil that Dahmer went to are too hideous to describe in detail here, but…

I never get tired of the Christmas story. The idea that the almighty, infinite God, the Creator of the universe, became a baby, a crying, smelly, helpless baby, is so unlike anything we could have ever imagined on our own.…

This December I am turning 36 years old. I’m no longer a young adult, nor am I yet seasoned with the stripes of gray hair that I suspect are creeping right around the corner. While I’ve lived a very blessed…

It’s quite rare that I remember my friend’s Facebook posts beyond the time it takes to read this sentence, but over the years there have been a few posts that have stuck with me. Several years back, one of them…