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Panic settled upon me after hearing how driven the state of Kansas has become in its effort to lure, entice, kidnap the KC Chiefs across state lines. Wouldn’t that be a federal offense? The same sense of panic sat in when Jackson County failed to renew the tax for the KC Royals in April. Why panic? I
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During the past few months, I have had the honor of officiating at two funerals, and yesterday I attended a third funeral. There is one resounding principle that keeps ringing in my ears: the greatest gift ever is love. Yesterday’s funeral was for a member of my church family of 28 years. I came to this community to
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given on Sunday, May 27,2012 Pentecost & Memorial Day Looking at the calendar sometimes reveals a surprise or two. This week’s surprise was seeing that Pentecost and Memorial Day weekend coincided. Our American holiday of Memorial Day eclipses the Christian recognition of Pentecost. This creates a quandary—how to work with both events. Then I
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given on Mothers Day, May 13, 2012 Mothers everywhere have learned to follow a routine to maintain the family’s heartbeat. The household has to run smoothly, the meals have to be prepared, and the laundry needs doing, too. Those are just the three primary maintenance issues, but the list goes on. Listening to the
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given on Sunday, April 29, 2012 Special introduction: This blog entry is more of a reflection and sharing of Missouri’s UMC Bishop testimony and the Call to Action which is currently under review at the denomination’s General Conference. This is not a comfortable discussion, but probably necessary in view of the state of the United
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given on Sunday, April 15, 2012 The Promise Box: Received as a Gift Years separated us. Occasionally we ran into each other, but usually there was not enough time to say more than hi, exchange a pleasantry, and then good-bye. Strange considering we had spent hours each school day together. We experienced so many things
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given on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 Have you ever wondered One question from a friend is all it took: Have you ever wondered what a difference one day makes? One question, just one has circled in and out of my head for days, weeks now. Have you ever wondered what a difference a
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given on Palm Sunday, April 1, 2012–no fooling! Who doesn’t love a parade? All the major holidays are connected to parades. The list includes the Rose Bowl Parade on New Years Day, St. Patrick Day parades, Easter (Bonnet or Hat) Parades, Memorial Day parades, Fourth of July parades, Thanksgiving Day parade, and of course Christmas
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given on Sunday, March 25, 2012–the final in the series on evangelism Agreed, enough of the Big Evangelism. Time has come to just dive in and get started. As long as we all understand what evangelism really is and we have removed all the reasons to be nervous about it. It is time to simply
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given on March 18, 2012, part of the Lenten series on evangelism Today I wanted to run away. The evangelism topic is still a scary one and I do not have all the answers. I cannot change the circumstances that surround the community or the history of the church. What I struggle to change is
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given on Sunday, March 11, 2012–the third in a series Let’s review the last two weeks before starting in on today’s thoughts. Two weeks ago, the idea of evangelism was introduced. The point was to remove the negative emotions that are conjured up when that word is heard. The Big E of evangelism really
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