Distracted Driving Laws Be Damned
It snowed in the Rockies Wednesday night, and Thursday morning dawned bright. The white on blue made the mountains taller and closer: it...
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Mark Buchanan
- Nov 30, 2012
- 2 min
Man Up
This past week, I heard my friend Rick Verkerk from Promise Keepers Canada share a startling statistic. If a child comes to Christ and...
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Mark Buchanan
- Oct 5, 2012
- 3 min
Getting a Grip
“Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” Proverbs 25:28 I was in a coffee shop the other day and a mom...
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Mark Buchanan
- Sep 28, 2012
- 2 min
A Better Way to Build A Team
This is my third and final post on the shape and content of our church’s staff meetings. In this post, I provide an outline for one of...
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Mark Buchanan
- Sep 14, 2012
- 3 min
Why I Love Meetings
That’s something you rarely hear: “I love meetings.” But I genuinely do. At least, I love the ones at the church where I’m a pastor. And...
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Mark Buchanan
- Aug 29, 2012
- 3 min
Are You Stoning Your Prophets? Part 2
Last week, I wrote about handling criticism. I promised a second installment. Here it is. Years ago I read a story, the source of which...
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Mark Buchanan
- Aug 24, 2012
- 2 min
Are You Stoning Your Prophets?
It’s folly to stone your prophets. Yet I see it all the time: people (I include myself here) who deal with unwelcome truth by rejecting...
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Mark Buchanan
- Aug 17, 2012
- 3 min
Do You Hear What I Hear?
I’ve been preaching for 23 years now (not without ceasing, though I’m sure a few of my parishioners feel that way). I think I’m at best...
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Mark Buchanan
- Aug 10, 2012
- 2 min
Better
The curse of giftedness is laziness. It's complacency. It's settling for mediocrity, because mediocrity for a highly gifted person might...
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Mark Buchanan
- Jul 27, 2012
- 2 min
Would I, Could I, Should I?
I’m going to sharpen my focus for this column. Each week, I will zero in on one of three themes: Leadership, Creativity, or Spirituality....
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Mark Buchanan
- Jul 20, 2012
- 2 min
Sacred Memory, Holy Amnesia
Joshua Foer’s brilliant quirky book Moonwalking with Einstein documents his year of becoming a prodigy of memory. It was a pursuit he...
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Mark Buchanan
- Jun 21, 2012
- 3 min
One Blessing after Another
Good-bye Pentrecwrt - We will miss this view. We are on the eve of leaving our rural hideaway in West Wales. We arrived on a dark night...
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Mark Buchanan
- May 25, 2012
- 2 min
While in Rome, Do as the Romans?
We're in southern Italy, in a breezy villa a short walk from the beach. The beach, embracing a wide expanse of blue-green sea, stretches...
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Mark Buchanan
- May 10, 2012
- 2 min
In the Eye of the Beholder
My Painting of a stream flowing under a stone bridge. Nicola's painting of an Island in Cardigan Bay I wanted to push myself creatively...
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Mark Buchanan
- May 3, 2012
- 2 min
A Wave I’d like to Catch
I'm reading about waves. Really. I brought along on my sabbatical Susan Casey's book The Wave, her sweeping and riveting account of...
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Mark Buchanan
- Apr 26, 2012
- 2 min
Working All Things Together For Good
I am learning to cook. One of the rules Cheryl laid down before we came to Wales was that she was only preparing a meal every third...
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Mark Buchanan
- Mar 30, 2012
- 2 min
The Last Word
March, according to the folklore, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb – a particularly apt image right now, given that I'm in...
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Mark Buchanan
- Mar 9, 2012
- 3 min
The Lord is My Shepherd
I'd never paid sheep much mind until I came to Wales. Here, they're impossible to ignore: they bleat outside the window, and stare,...
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Mark Buchanan
- Jan 8, 2012
- 2 min
Because You Say So
Sometimes the only motivation for doing anything is that Jesus says so. Otherwise, we’re bankrupt. We simply can’t muster up the vision...
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Mark Buchanan
- Jan 2, 2012
- 2 min
Making All Things New
The earth orbits the sun at a good clip. It fairly bustles, travelling at nearly 67,000 miles per hour, slowing or accelerating slightly...
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