I finished the Christmas Eve service here in Northern California, zipped over to our small airport and hopped a plane to Seattle (our hometown) to join Anne, all our kids and both families for a celebratory week. Oops. Didn’t happen. Covid struck. So did a rare Seattle snowstorm, for that matter. But covid kept most…
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Our church has been in the Gospel of Luke for an entire year. We started in Advent of 2020 and just kept going. We did skip ahead during Lent and Easter 2021 to synch with the cross and resurrection, then went right back to where we were. Now we’ve nearly finished, having completed roughly 50…
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What’s a pastor good for, anyway? When all else fails, when sermons bomb and creativity falters and pandemics hinder worship and patience with people wanes…we pray. This is possibly our very highest calling, but it still begs the follow-up question: what is prayer all about? Whatever Reformed,…
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by Dan Baumgartner Just so you won’t have to wonder as you read this first paragraph, I’m 62 years old. Barely. Okay, with that out of the way…John Stott is gone. Dallas Willard is gone. Eugene Peterson is gone. Some of the main people I have read, quoted, learned from, and admired over the years…
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