Category Archives: From Our Pastors

How We Can Embrace Thanksgiving and Resist the Siren Song of Shopping

In an article in Sunday’s New York Times titled, “How to Defeat the Impulse Buy,” psychologist David DeSteno suggests that the best way to resist impulse buying this holiday season…

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Feeling Overcome By “Information”?

The biologist E.O. Wilson famously wrote, “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.” He wrote this line in 1998, just as the Internet was becoming the means through…

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Can We Point Our Friends to Jesus?

I’ve been thinking a lot about evangelism lately. As I think about the long-term health, and even viability, of our congregation, it is essential that we see people who do…

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Following Jesus to Engage Our World: Responding to Discouraging Trends

Have you ever been in the middle of a task that got unexpectedly hard? Maybe it was hitting a rock while digging, or encountering a surprisingly steep slope while hiking….

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Are We Old Enough to Read Fairy Tales?

When did you stop reading fairy tales? Were you eight…ten…twelve? Maybe you’ve read a fairy tale to a child as an adult and actually been caught up in the story–wanting…

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