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Bucket-Carrying Partners

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A friend of mine recently checked an item off his bucket list: playing The Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland, the course commonly thought of as the birthplace of golf, dating back to the 1400s. As he crossed the iconic Swilcon bridge on the last hole, Dan created a 30-second video of him presenting pictures he had printed … [Read more...]

“The Way” to Holy Wow

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Quick question: Which of the following are most likely to generate a “wow!” reaction from you: Mountains, ocean, a concert, a video, an unexpected good grade, a shooting star, a sunrise, a sunset, a surprise favor from a friend   Quick follow up: Think about the “wow!” reaction for a minute. Why do we react that … [Read more...]

School-Year Prayers

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You’d think that key prayers and teachings in Scripture were prayed and delivered with the American school year in mind. And, well, they might have been, given God’s omniscience. The child and teen years are years of significant spiritual formation. And in the course of a school year students spend a big chunk of their waking … [Read more...]

Seeing the Golden Rule in the Golden Sludge

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Maybe you saw the pictures…gold-colored sludge oozing its way down the Animas River in Colorado caused by a breach in a dam at an abandoned gold mine. Workers were doing maintenance on the mine on August 5, 2015 and accidentally destroyed a dam holding back a retention pond that contained waste water from the mine. Reports say … [Read more...]

Would Jesus Leave Room for Cream?

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Would Jesus leave room for cream? Picture yourself in a Starbucks, ordering coffee with Jesus. You place your order, Jesus places His order, and the barista asks Jesus if He’d like room for cream. What do you think He’d say? Actually, the answer to that question, which we’ll get to in a minute, isn’t as important as this: … [Read more...]