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Showing posts with label My Wife Nicole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Wife Nicole. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

The difficult truth about the role of women that was lost in the outrage for/against Harrison Butker's speech

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  It was entirely predictable that NFL kicker Harrison Butker's commencement address would be condemned in most blue circles and lauded ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

John MacArthur's denial of the existence of mental illness is shameful, harmful, and outright false

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  Beth Moore, doctor criticize John MacArthur for claiming mental illness isn’t real - by Leonardo Blair, Christianpost.com ‘There’s no such...
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

My daughter turns 9 this week, what that makes this dad think about

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It was in the fall of 2014 that I put Nicole's first sonogram into our Sunday worship PowerPoint and told the congregation that I had a ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Stories We Choose to Tell: God’s use of The Exodus

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  My beautiful wife Nicole and I have been married for 21 years and counting.   Early on in our married life she began a habit of asking, “t...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

My thirty year journey away from Rush Limbaugh

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  As a public persona, Rush Limbaugh changed very little in the last thirty years, his philosophy regarding government, animosity toward pol...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Looking at my own FB activity since COVID-19 started

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Given how much of our communication of late has been online, I thought it worthwhile to examine my own posts/shares to Facebook since March ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

How should I interact with my pastor?

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I can't speak for all of us, but perhaps some examples from my own perspective might help both my congregation and those from other floc...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Sermon Video: Why do people get married? - 1 Corinthians 7:36-40

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Why do people get married?  While the reasons abound, the Apostle Paul, in finishing the section of his letter to the Church in Corinth that...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Sermon Video: Remain where you are? 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

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As a Christian, should you stay where and what you are, assuming it is God's will, or should you seek to change the life you're livi...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Sexual Immorality disqualifies leadership

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The harsh reality of the pervasiveness of sexual assault, harassment, and exploitation throughout society has been brought out of the shadow...
Friday, August 21, 2015

From where does my belief in Christian unity come?

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In light of the baptism of my daughter Clara, there are likely some who are wondering where my belief in Christian unity (ecumenism) has it...

A father's prayer of thanksgiving to God

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This is the closing prayer that I gave at the end of the baptism of our daughter, Clara.  My wife, Nicole is Catholic, I am the pastor of th...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

What have we learned, one month into our time with Clara?

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Tomorrow will be one month since the birth of our little bundle of extra cuteness, Clara Marie.  What have we learned thus far, about paren...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

God answers the prayer of children too

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On April 19th my wife was almost two weeks past her due date and not enjoying the "extra" time at the end of her pregnancy.  I ask...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The dedication of Clara Marie

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On Sunday I was had the honor of dedicating my six day old daughter, Clara Marie.  Infant dedication is a formal acknowledgement of the role...

Sermon Video: Reflections on her birth - various texts

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This week's events necessitated a one week hiatus from our study of Titus because it marked the arrival of my daughter, Clara Marie.  My...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Sermon Video: "Train a child" - Proverbs 22:6

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In light of the impending birth of our first child, I decided to utilize the text of Proverbs 22:6 to talk about parenting as it relates to ...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

A message of salvation by grace through faith.

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Nicole and I were in church today listening to a preacher utilize Ephesians 2:8-9 and John 3:16 to talk about how salvation cannot be merite...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A marriage built on ecumenical goodwill - Our marriage highlighted in local newspaper article.

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I was asked by our local religion reporter for the combined newspaper, The Derrick & The News Herald, Curtis Hanna, if he could write a ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A vote in favor of monogamy

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Who is it that understands the value of sex?  Is it the man or woman, committed in the bonds of marriage to only each other, or is it the mo...