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Inbox Zero
For the first time in a huge, long while – my email inbox is empty.
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Healthier Pastor
Last night I received an email from a pastor friend let me know that one of his congregants had passed away, a death that saddened him. He asked if I could pray for his family. A relatively young man in his forties, he collapsed at work and died. Doctors believed he had a heart attack.
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Life
Anger and hatred. There is way too much of it in our world. Politics. Family. You name it. Anger and hatred are tearing apart our lives. But there is a way to change it, to make life better. It’s all about living Life to the fullest. This Sunday, our new sermon series begins. What does […]
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Meatless Good Friday
Balancing the spiritual desires of Holy Week with the realities of real life sometimes causes me to shake my head. I’ve been asked a half-dozen times in the course the last two days whether it is a church rule that you can’t eat meat on Good Friday. The “understanding” of not eating meat on Friday […]
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Canceling a Funeral in a Snowstorm
For the first time in my ministry, I had to cancel a scheduled funeral because of bad weather. We are under a Winter Storm Warning for my area of northern New Jersey, expecting anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of snow coupled with winds in excess of 30 miles per hour. These blizzard-like conditions are […]