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    Distracted Driving Laws Be Damned
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    • Sep 20, 2013
    • 2 min

    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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    Man Up
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    • Nov 30, 2012
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    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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    Getting a Grip
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    • Oct 5, 2012
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    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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    A Better Way to Build A Team
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    • Sep 28, 2012
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    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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    Why I Love Meetings
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    • Sep 14, 2012
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    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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    Are You Stoning Your Prophets? Part 2
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    • Aug 29, 2012
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    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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    Are You Stoning Your Prophets?
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    • Aug 24, 2012
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    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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    Do You Hear What I Hear?
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    • Aug 17, 2012
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    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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    Better
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    • Aug 10, 2012
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    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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    Would I, Could I, Should I?
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    • Jul 27, 2012
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    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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    Sacred Memory, Holy Amnesia
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    • Jul 20, 2012
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    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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    One Blessing after Another
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    • Jun 22, 2012
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    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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    While in Rome, Do as the Romans?
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    • May 25, 2012
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    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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    In the Eye of the Beholder
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    • May 11, 2012
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    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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    A Wave I’d like to Catch
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    • May 4, 2012
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    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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    Working All Things Together For Good
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    • Apr 26, 2012
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    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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    The Last Word
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    • Mar 30, 2012
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    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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    The Lord is My Shepherd
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    • Mar 9, 2012
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    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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    Because You Say So
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    • Jan 8, 2012
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    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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    Making All Things New
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    • Jan 2, 2012
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    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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