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Showing posts with label my daughter Clara Marie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my daughter Clara Marie. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Sermon Video: A Household in Harmony: Parents and Children - Ephesians 6:1-4

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Speaking to both children and their parents, the Apostle Paul gives timeless direction that is as applicable to Greco-Roman world of the 1st...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

My one powerful conversation with Tony Campolo

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  Today many of my friends and collogues in ministry are sharing wonderful stories of their many interactions over the decades with American...
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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 ...
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...
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, February 12, 2020

Seeing the world through a father's eyes

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For those of you who don't know, I came to fatherhood later in life than most of my peers.  My wife Nicole and I had already been marrie...
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, August 29, 2017

Out of Control: The unspoken cost of over-scheduled children

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The most recent issue of Time magazine featured a cover story, "How Kid Sports Turned Pro" which highlights many of the financial ...
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...