As I grow in Christ, I find something amazing happening– I listen more! No not a perfect listener, as I major in interrupting people. I can quickly understand a point being made by another person, and if they are wandering around the galaxy trying to make this point, I believe it my pastoral duty […]
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Our country was founded in protest; Christianity was founded in protest; Martin Luther protested; Martin Luther King protested. I went to the protest in our community last weekend. I went to protests in the 60’s. Proverbs 31:9 reads, “Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.” I believe what happened
An invitation at the end! I pray for breakthrough. I have a problem or a trial and I pray until I gain insight and peace. Sometimes, I don’t know how to pray. The breakthrough seems distant — I can’t get there and what is frustrating, I don’t where to start. Every prayer warrior or intercessor
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I am often confounded. I don’t know what to say or to do. When I experience doubt, when I encounter something that I don’t understand, when I watch media, when I see death or sickness, when I can’t come up with something wise to say to save a marriage, when I’m confronted and don’t know
I apologize in advance – some of you will be sleeping even less this summer! Fear is a unique feature of our existence. There is a part of our brain that uses fear to trigger flight or fight. There is the fear treadmill that we can spin incessantly in our minds. While following God’s Spirit,
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It has taken 67 years to build the world of Grant Edwards. I have a house, a theology, a family, a degree of comfort, ambitions, ideas, a political stance, and Bible doctrine. I believe that I am right in these things. I’ve learned that it is dangerous to quickly dismiss opposing thoughts. Even though I
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Sowers … A week ago someone texted me and said, “Remember what you said to me a few years ago, I have never forgotten this statement and it has helped me.” I didn’t remember what I had said but I was glad that it helped. I have to admit this happens a lot. It is
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I’m asked this question often. Most conversations initiated with me in the last few years focus on this question. There are different forms of the question– Should I marry this person? Should I take this job? Should I divorce my wife? Should I go on vacation? Should I start this business? ‘Is it God?’ is
I love ambition. My entire life, I have been ambitious. I want to accomplish something. If I’m not working toward a big goal, I get frustrated. I would not enjoy working with someone who doesn’t have ambition. Blind ambition and selfish ambition, I want to avoid. But a desire for success that serves God’s Kingdom
Today, I’m thinking about heroes. I have several in my life: of course my parents, and I would include John Wilson, a pastor in Springfield that enabled my entry into the ministry. I could list several others but I will stop with Lewis Foster, my seminary professor. He kept me from quitting my master’s level