Advent episode
Just dropped our Advent episode over at UCC Table Talk. Enjoy!
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We’re all waiting for something…
I hate waiting. I dated Diedra for five long years before we got married (the disadvantage of meeting when you're in high school). We struggled…
Advent
If you're on the hunt for an Advent devotional, here's the one I'm using this year:
Happy Thanksgiving
New this fall, at Upland Community Church, we've been recording a series of conversations. Entitled UCC Table Talk, these are informal, encouraging, intergenerational explorations of…
Don’t cancel ’em!
If you're a leader, it's inevitable that you will have to make an unpopular decision. People may get angry with you, gossip about you, slander…
When to stop?
C.S. Lewis worked hard to write back to his fans. I have a collection of his letters to children--and I love them. He's able to…
Would you rather?
"Would You Rather?" is a game I play with my kids sometimes. I give you a hypothetical option between two unpleasant things, and see which…
A gentle word
"Kindness is irresistible, so long as it be genuine and without false smiles and duplicity. The most consummate impudence can do nothing, if you remain…
Hell begins with grumbling
“Christianity asserts that we are going to go on forever...Now there are a great many things that wouldn’t be worth bothering about if I was…
The mother of giants.
Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. If a man would make his…