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Cover Your Ears!

Amos 3:1-11 High Summer! We’re all in the full swing of travel, barbecues, sunscreen, sports, family and friends! I guess because I often go to Israel in the summers, which puts me in a mode

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July 16, 2014

Sanity in an Insane World-Part 3

So, walking into the room filled with gas fumes that was the upset king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, we’ve noticed Daniel could confront the fear and insanity of the moment because Daniel found a way to

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May 14, 2013

Sanity in an Insane World-Part 2

I think there is much we can learn from Daniel in general, and particularly from the story of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity in Daniel 4, about how believers can live and work in a violent, dangerous, frightened,

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May 10, 2013

Sanity in an Insane World

I was given a last minute assignment to preach in the Asbury Seminary chapel on Tuesday April 16. With no particular idea prominent on my mind, I simply selected Old Testament text from the Daily

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May 9, 2013

Some Other Morning

Note: I realize that I used the David Bentley Hart quotation at the end of this article in my last piece, about two weeks ago. I used it in the homily, and didn’t want to

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May 2, 2013

Finishing Well

reFlectionary: musings on Old Testament readings from the Daily Office Lectionary. Season after Pentecost, Proper 13, Thursday (August 9, 2012) Finishing Well: Gideon Judges 8:22-35 Someone has defined “ambivalence” as watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff…in

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April 11, 2013

Grace Waits

reFlectionary posts will be periodic reflections on readings, usually the Old Testament reading, from the Daily Office Lectionary, which forms the backbone of my devotional reading. Periodically, I offer a brief homily and serve at

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April 2, 2013