Category: Story
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Christmas Counting
This is a long post, but it recalls a long day which has lasted fourteen years so far. This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of my youngest daughter’s T1D diagnosis (aka “diaversary”). Fourteen years ago, progress to a cure seemed so close that we were told that a cure was…
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Dust to Glory: A Christmas Story
Advent 2017 was a very special, early Christmas gift for me. In early summer, I met with two young artist who attend the church which I pastor. Adah Freeman and Asher McClain willingly endeavored to engage the vision I had for this year’s Advent season. It was my desire to…
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A Christmas Letter
Here’s a Christmas letter from a friend. Merry Christmas! Dear Randy, I hope this letter finds you doing well. Anna sends here greetings, as do Amy, Angie, and Amanda to your children. Lately, I have found myself in the malaise of the holiday season. I began with such high expectations,…
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Unwinding the Darkness
This is last night’s Christmas Story which I read at the church I pastor, Grace Presbyterian.. It is still very rough and in need of editing, but that’s the way with some Christmas gifts. Consider the typos, misspellings, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences my special gift. In spite of all…
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"This intolerable calling…
This intolerable calling requires courage and humility. It requires a life full of God. It also requires that the preacher become as wise as possible. Even an expository preacher has to become a kind of sage, a person who is conversant on the range of biblical topics and who can…
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