Who believes in the best for you? This is the fourth in my series of “How Do We Live in These Days?” series. If you missed last week’s conversation about privilege, you can read it here. We all need to keep a few really good friends around for the long haul . . . especially if …
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Goodbye 5, 10 or 15 Year Life Plan: I have no idea!
When I started seventh grade, I was in club that asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. We were told to write our answers down on a piece of paper and keep it somewhere where we’d see it again in several years. I recently found it again all these years later …
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Don’t Stop Dreaming
God’s Dreams for Us Genesis 28: 10-19, Ephesians 2:14-21 Watonga Indian Baptist Church Watonga, OK Have you ever found yourself in a position where you were confused, without direction or without prospects on the horizon for a better future? Maybe such was a time in your life when you lost a job, fell into a …
Reading, Re-reading and Dreams
In our consumer driven everything culture, we often treat reading as just another thing to conquer, to finish, to master. In seminary, we marked our progress by how many textbook were on our shelves. Colleagues ask me at conferences, “How many books have you read lately?” Congregants ask me: “What books can you teach us more about?” …
Intentions and Holding on to Hope
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional –Colin Wilson Such was one of the quotes we discussed together as a small group gathered at the Brunson’s home on Tuesday night last week. Gathered together in the spirit of stewardship season as our theme is “An Intentional Life” we talked about the ways that we’ve each been both intentional …