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What does God require of us
but to love mercy?
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“Good Samaritans” show mercy with reckless abandon because they understand the risky, sticky nature of mercy
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Brand New
While there’s nothing inherently wrong with nicknames, they can be cruel and crushing.
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Dale Wallace had asked me to do the lecture at Men's Community Bible Study the Monday evening before Thanksgiving 2002. Dale is a gifted lecturer and lawyer. Normally I would have simply written down some points and talked, but I felt compelled to write a manuscript, which for me is an eye-magnet! I played off of Acts 11:26: "The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch."
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Lessons Learned Late
Too late on a rainy Wednesday evening. But late has become my way of life.
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Written late(!) one evening in November 2002, I found myself compelled to write this, well, I don't know what it is! I sub-titled it "Heaven may not be as dull as we though it was." It was my attempt to bring together to things I don't understand: why we never have enough time for friends and what in the world...er, I mean, in heaven, or we going to do for eternity. (This article is still being written...I keep on finding hits.)
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Overheard Overtime
I live in a state where babies
are born crying “War Eagle”
or “Roll Tide”.
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There I was sitting in the Anchorage Restaurant, my favorite morning haunt, when my unintentional eavesdropping landed me smack-dab-in-the-middle of an article I had not intended to write, but then could do nothing but borrow a pen and paper and go at it. I forced my unsuspecting staff, bleary-eyed from too much pigskin action, to endure my reading it aloud to them. My pastor loved it and force-fed it to our faith family through the Sunday bulletin.
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Making Peace
There lies within each of us
that deep, persistent
yearning to be at peace.
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Peace has never been humanity's strong suit. Man came into the world with rebellion in his heart. Peace has always eluded our grasp. This article is a revision of a narrative written for the Senior High Youth Choir of Eastern Hills Bapist Church, Montgomery, AL. The kids performed this in Pennsylvania as part of a mission trip.
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Near to the [Hurting]
Heart of God
No one ever births
a relationship of any kind expecting to be hurt.
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When I am brave enough to look at myself through without excuses and pride through from heaven's vantage point, I am amazed at how really bad I am and how really good God is. I wwrote this after having to confront an employee with a problem he refused to acknowledge readily. Later, as I wrote this as a letter to him, I realized that it was as much for me as it was for him. To only man did God grant the power and freedom to break His own heart. I do stand amazed!
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Thoughts on "Follow Me"
"Follow Me" is a troubling and challenging reminder that following Christ is always about a cross that is very real...
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In the Fall of 2003 I met a young man who would radically impact my life. God used Eric Lovett to show me things about myself that no one before had ever done. I introduced Eric to the Lead Like Jesus movement. In January 2004, he and a friend, Adam Lancaster, wrote "Follow Me", a powerful song with a potent message. Listening to the song and thinking about how we would interpret the song in a music video, I wrote the following background.
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My Cousins Still
Tickle Me
From my earliest recollection, the faces and voices of cousins haunt my mind.
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One of the books I want to write -- People of My Years -- celebrates those people who have helped shape my life. Early one morning I awoke with this memory from more than 40 years ago fresh on my mind and heart.
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Into the Highways
and Hedges
THE church ought to be smack dab in the middle of things we find at odds with our faith and its teachings.
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For many people and for many years advertising has been suspect as a way of communicating salvation's story to the lost. I've often pondered WWJD in this case. The answer is best found, perhaps, not in WWJD, but in WDJD...what did Jesus do?
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