Pastor’s Blog

My Condolences

“My condolences.” This seems to be the go-to statement that most people offer to those who’ve recently suffered a death in the family. We say this because it’s “safe” during what is, for many of us, an uncomfortable situation. I mean, death has such a ripple effect in the lives of loved ones that any

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Stop Calling Me That!

I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to come up with one redeeming value of labels; I mean, other than the obvious utility of being able to communicate using nouns during proper speech (it is, after all, convenient to refer to an object, place, or person by name rather than point to it and grunt like a baby).

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Personal Hygiene

A man comes to your front door. He looks terrible and smells even worse than he looks. You can tell he’s a door-to-door salesman and business looks a little slow, so you begrudgingly let him in. You figure if what he’s selling is something remotely useful to you, you’ll place an order to help the

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Forgiving Our Parents

With power comes responsibility. We are introduced to this reality as children. We are born powerless, unable to even feed ourselves, never mind fend for and protect ourselves. We are, in the most vulnerable of ways, at the mercy of our parents. We are their responsibility from the start. God bestows a lot of responsibility

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The Toxic Woman

Have you ever smelled propane gas? It smells like rotten eggs. A lot of people don’t realize that, in its natural state, propane gas is odorless. This means that you could breathe it in at length and not even know it. Given that it is an asphyxiating gas (it displaces oxygen in your lungs), high

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Does It Even Matter?

I was having an in-depth conversation with an older woman the other day about the insidiousness of worldly thinking and how entrenched we are in it. The discussion wasn’t about how terrible human beings are to each other (that was an early concession in our discussion) but rather how this world is in bondage to

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Context Is Key

“Hey, friend, what’s the matter?” “Everyone’s just awful nowadays!” “How so?” “Well, for starters, everywhere I go, people are just rude to me. I’m so sick of it!” “Sounds like you’ve been having a bad day.” “More like a bad year!” “Well, I’m here for you, remember?” “I know, I know. I don’t mean you.

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