Love God; love yourself as God loves you; and love others as you love yourself. As a Baptist minister, Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent are unfamiliar things to me. But as I have tried to...
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Click photo for photo credit“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will return; but the steadfast love of our Lord endures forever.” On Wednesday I repeated these words over and over. Each time with a...
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Two nights ago I received the sad news that my friend Cathy had passed away from aggressive ovarian cancer. Cathy and I, along with several friends in a group we call our “sacred circle,” shared an annual...
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“I am alpha and omega…the beginning and the end.” It’s one of the ways God defines God’s self. It’s a short list of the places we can find easy audience with God – beginnings and endings. I would concur with...
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Click photo for photo credit“Hi. I’m Jennifer. And I feel called to be a pastor.” Funny how ministry discernment can feel like the intro to an AA meeting (or at least how they are portrayed in movies and TV)....
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The other day I ran into Cletus, an old friend I first met four years ago, over breakfast at the local soup kitchen. I don’t volunteer there; I go for the donuts. The priest who runs the place doesn’t mind....
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Click photo for photo credit“What a friend we have in Jesus.” I love that old hymn; but there are days . . . . There are days I’m just not sure what to do with Jesus. Unlike those folks of old who were so...
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Greetings from ChurchWorks 2011! FaithLab will be blogging from the event starting today (Monday, Feb 21) through Wednesday, February 23. The event, sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, draws...
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