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Compliments That Don’t Suffocate
There are several ways that people’s kind words and best intentions fall flat. Seeing as this is one of the saddest things to witness, I thought I’d [...]
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Defining Church: A Process of Elimination
Right this minute, there is a myriad of voices clamouring to define what church is. The more people try, the more obvious it becomes: church cannot be [...]
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The Big Problem
The big problem is that our culture thinks that the church is merely a giant, calloused, manipulative propaganda-generator. An even bigger problem is that it’s sometimes right. [...]
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Abuse of the “Itching Ears”
You may be familiar with this Bible passage: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate [...]
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I Was Incensed…But She Had a Point
Several years ago I was listening to a stand-up comedian online. Her routine transitioned into the topic of religion, which is somewhat dangerous territory for a self-proclaimed [...]
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What is Awe?
Do you find it in a gurgling stream? Do you find it in the lazily haphazard meanderings of a butterfly? Do you find it in the cheerful [...]
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The Single Largest Lament of Leadership
In our residential neighbourhood, there is a hideous mutation of an intersection that connects five roads. It used to have stop signs facing each way, and it [...]
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The Story We Tell
Have you seen the Believe campaign? I think it remarkably captures the spirit of nationalism that we share here in Canada. Think of what this could have [...]
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