Category Archives: Prayerfulness

Always Lifting

One of the great prayer traditions that may go missing in the frenzy of contemporary life is intercessory prayer in the moment. When God brings someone to mind, stop. Take time to picture that person in your thoughts and recall the very best of his or her character and giftings. Thank God for that person.  [...]

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How to Ruin the Recipe for a Good Church

The Girl Scout cookies had arrived. They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and to this I must attest. At least for this man. In part, anyway. Samoas are the bullet train between my cardiac and GI functions. All toasted coconut, chocolate, overcooked caramel goodness in a cookie. I [...]

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Post-Election 2012: Sex, Race, Evangelicalism, and the Future

A week ago, we as a nation were set to decide several important political outcomes. A week later, those outcomes are decided, with the clearest message of all being that Evangelical Christians were repudiated convincingly at the polls. Whatever hubris existed in that voting bloc at the time of the 2000 elections has been wiped [...]

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