It is the season of gifts…so I want to encourage you at the end of this year to be sure to remember your church and its ministry goals. We don’t, after all, give to a budget or just to pay
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My friend Chuck Bugg challenges us, “Don’t rush to Bethlehem. Listen for the angels. Watch for the extraordinary. Refuse to fear.” Don’t rush to Bethlehem or to Crabtree Valley Mall or to the next Christmas party or the next Amazon package
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My longtime favorite writer, Frederick Buechner, once wrote, “Life is not just a journey through time. It is a sacred journey.” The journey of my life has been filled with many special celebrations and milestones along the way. In July, Kathy
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This Sunday marks the first Sunday of Advent as we light the Hope Candle. Kate Bowler is a wonderful writer and serves on the faculty of Duke Divinity School. She writes: The tradition of lighting an Advent wreath actually started in
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“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” (Psalm 107:1) As we prepare for one of the most appropriate holidays of the year, I invite you to pause a moment and count your blessings. As
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Veterans Day always brings with it tender and grateful emotions. My dad was a member of the greatest generation, a generation who gave themselves unselfishly and bravely that we might continue to know a special freedom we so often take for
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I continue to benefit so much from our times together on Wednesday evenings as we go through the book “Practicing the Way” by John Mark Comer. We are half way through and now is the perfect time to join others in
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The contrast could not be more dramatic. You step out of my former church in Wake Forest—a place of love and light and good news—to see immediately across the street a house submerged in Halloween decor. Skeletons, cobwebs, monsters,
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These Wednesday nights we are learning from the book “Practicing the Way” by John Mark Comer. (Buy it) I personally think it is the most important study we’ve shared since I have been with you and I encourage you to
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“Where are the great preachers?” the noted pastor John Killinger was once asked. His response—“where the great congregations are.” I shared that quote yesterday at the church conference following your wonderful gift for Pastor Appreciation Month. I don’t claim to