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4 Things You Can Do for Lent that Don’t Involve Giving Up Chocolate

February 17, 2021 Blog Ash Wednesday 2

Ah, Ash Wednesday – the beginning of Lent, the day we make promises to give something up, the night the preacher applies smudgy ashes on our foreheads to remind us […]

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On This Day What a Fig Tree Can Teach Us

March 18, 2020 Blog coronavirus No comments yet

On this day in 1924, the infamous “Tri-State Tornado” ripped through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and wreaking $16.5 million in property damage. The one-mile wide monster, the […]

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On This Day Living Death

February 28, 2020 Blog M.A.S.H. No comments yet

On this day in 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired, becoming the most-watched television episode in U.S. history. The  2½ hour program, entitled “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” drew in […]

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The Grasshoppers of Life

March 7, 2019 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

My dad grew up in a Texas sharecropper’s shack during the Great Depression. He was barely a teenager when the “Grasshopper Wars” began. The winged insects darkened the sky like […]

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Repentance Doesn’t Have To Be Emotional

February 14, 2018 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

In seminary, I was a youth pastor. Every summer during this time, I served as a volunteer at high school church camp. Those were halcyon days spent in small groups, […]

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National Week of Repentance Has Begun

September 25, 2017 Blog Anger No comments yet

The National Week of Repentance, launched by Pastor Michael Anthony, has begun. The movement’s website states that its purpose is to start “a revolution of humility and courage…the “only things that will […]

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Three Bible Verses for Ash Wednesday

February 28, 2017 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

No one really knows the exact origins of Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent.  A ritual for the “Day of Ashes” is contained in an 8th-century church document, but […]

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The Grasshoppers of Life

February 22, 2015 Blog Dust Bowl No comments yet

  Read Joel 2:1-2; 12-17  My dad grew up in a Texas sharecropper’s shack during the Great Depression. He was barely a teenager when the “Grasshopper Wars” began. The winged insects […]

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A Repentance that Isn’t Repentance At All

March 28, 2013 Blog Good Friday No comments yet

    As I prepare to portray Judas on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday at two churches, I am struck again by the King James translation of Matthew 27:3-4: “Then […]

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Come, Darkness of Lent

February 13, 2013 Blog 40 Days No comments yet

With Ash Wednesday, the shadowy journey of Lent has begun. Lent is a season that doesn’t bring warm fuzzies like Christmas or Easter. You’re not going to find a Hallmark […]

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