Tag: Prayer
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When Life Stops Making Sense
Twenty-five years ago, I sat in a classroom in New Jersey. The morning was crisp, blue, and beautiful. We were just getting started with a new school year. Early in the day, news started rushing through the halls about an airplane that had just hit a building in the city. A few months earlier, I…
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This is the Life
Once a year I head to Gateway Christian School to participate in a session of their life skills class for high school seniors. I pull my old Jeep CJ out of the garage and use it to teach them how to check and change their oil, jump a dead battery, and change a tire. I…
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Prayer requests that are too big (and a baby update!)
Sometimes my orthodoxy (what I believe and what is theologically acceptable) and my orthopraxy (how I live out my orthodoxy) collide in obvious ways. Lately, I notice the conflict most in my prayer life. About two weeks ago, this challenge occurred again. My wife Kim is now almost 13 weeks pregnant. When we visited the…
