I could thank the Puritans for my luxuries, with their clean, industrious ways. I’m sure I can thank the Lord, whose mercies are new every morning—even in Nepal. I just want to remember how rich I am.
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what is the gospel?
May 11, 2016 
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The Gospel is true because it changes things and it changes us. We need to be changed. Just look around.
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Good Friday indeed
March 25, 2016 2 Comments
By 3 Jesus is dead, having spoken only seven times. The sky turns black, there is an earthquake, rocks split into, dead people come out of their graves, only to die once more. And we call this Good Friday.
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for Kenny and Katelyn, on covenant
March 21, 2016 0 Comments
Sacrifice is the essence of covenant making. And the sacrifice you both offer today is yourselves
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she shells sea shells
March 10, 2016 2 Comments
I’m not sure how I feel about Katie finding the best shell, seeing as how she is from Toledo. Perhaps this is beginner’s luck.
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balcony
March 6, 2016 1 Comment
surveying an ancient canvas
scrubbed clean
by tides and waves
a rhythm of renewal
March 5, 2016 0 Comments
There are dolphins playing along the edges of the surf as the sun glints off the white-capped waves. We will go soon and walk beside them.
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be my Valentine(s)
February 13, 2016 0 Comments
Originally posted on the daysman:
It’s Valentine’s Day, or “single awareness day” as college students without a date often say. They may be confusing it with the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, when seven mobsters were killed in a Chicago gang feud. They do well to be confused about the significance of this holiday, since the…
Letters from Bharat; from mud to marble
February 6, 2016 0 Comments
Whenever we visit IBS, we are met by bright, positive, eager young men and women who want their lives, and the lives of their families, to be different. And better. There is poverty, yes. But there in no poverty mentality.
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Advice millenials haven't asked for
The Ordination Papers
"I wouldn't have expected an 'ordination paper' to cause me to want to worship. But it did." -Rob Stewart
The Santa Papers
A seasonal favorite, all year long.
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getting the point
I wouldn’t say I have necessarily rediscovered the joy of handwriting, but it is a pleasant experience, experimenting with the different feel of different leads.
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