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Friday Friendship Tip: Don’t Neglect Your Friends For New Love
Friday Friendship Tip: Avoid Triangles
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: Be Yourself
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: Let Go
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and joy…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: “Just Friends”
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Conceptualizing Prostitution
Prostitution is conceptualized in a variety of different ways in modern American…
Read More →Wrong Way!
Here’s something I saw on FailBlog.org a while back, a little bit of fun for Saturday night:
Doesn’t it feel sometimes like living with a mental illness puts us out of…
Read More →Complete and Incomplete Forgiveness
The following is the full text of the July edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and…
Read More →Be Still?
The following is the full text of the May edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
Be still and know that I am God
- Psalm 46:10This well-known scripture…
Read More →Precious Dust
The following is the full text of the April edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
This year on Ash Wednesday we were blessed to worship with our…
Read More →Before I Die…
Candy Chang, a public installation artist, created this beautiful art installation called “Before I Die…” in New Orleans. Here is what she has to say about it:
With a lot of support from old and new friends, I turned the side of an abandoned house in my…
Read More →“What are you giving up for Lent?”
The following is the full text of the March edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
“What are you giving up for Lent?”
When I was in high school,…
Read More →Sermon: Be… Perfect?
Be… Perfect?
Preached at Redmond United Methodist Church on February 20th, 2011
Texts: Leviticus 19: 1-2, 9-18; Matthew 5:38-48
Read More →A word of encouragement: Love
Today is Valentine’s Day, and I wish all of you a day filled with live-giving, healing, transformational love. Let none of us be satisfied by the saccharine over-sweetness of infatuation or the self-serving pungeance of lust; let us only be satisfied by unconditional, pure, and abiding love.
I profess the…
Read More →What we can learn from being sick
The following is the full text of the February edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
I am recovering from the worst cold I’ve had in years. I’m one of…
Read More →Sermon: The Word of God
This sermon was preached originally on January 3rd, 2010, at All Pilgrims Christian Church. I preached an updated version of it on January 2nd, 2011, at Magnolia United Methodist Church. The manuscript is from the 2010 worship service, and the audio is from the 2011 worship service….
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- All Blog Posts (50)
- Friday Friendship Tips (5)
- Sermons (10)
- Tea & Empathy (14)
- Uncategorized (2)
- Words of Encouragement (6)
Friday Friendship Tip: Don’t Neglect Your Friends For New Love
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tip: Avoid Triangles
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: Be Yourself
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: Let Go
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and joy…
Read More →Friday Friendship Tips: “Just Friends”
About Friday Friendship Tips: Friendship is often overlooked in our society, dropped down the priority list below our partners, children, other family members, and even our career. We often underestimate the power of friendship as a source of encouragement, strength, and…
Read More →Conceptualizing Prostitution
Prostitution is conceptualized in a variety of different ways in modern American…
Read More →Wrong Way!
Here’s something I saw on FailBlog.org a while back, a little bit of fun for Saturday night:
Doesn’t it feel sometimes like living with a mental illness puts us out of…
Read More →Complete and Incomplete Forgiveness
The following is the full text of the July edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and…
Read More →Be Still?
The following is the full text of the May edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
Be still and know that I am God
- Psalm 46:10This well-known scripture…
Read More →Precious Dust
The following is the full text of the April edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
This year on Ash Wednesday we were blessed to worship with our…
Read More →Before I Die…
Candy Chang, a public installation artist, created this beautiful art installation called “Before I Die…” in New Orleans. Here is what she has to say about it:
With a lot of support from old and new friends, I turned the side of an abandoned house in my…
Read More →“What are you giving up for Lent?”
The following is the full text of the March edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
“What are you giving up for Lent?”
When I was in high school,…
Read More →Sermon: Be… Perfect?
Be… Perfect?
Preached at Redmond United Methodist Church on February 20th, 2011
Texts: Leviticus 19: 1-2, 9-18; Matthew 5:38-48
Read More →A word of encouragement: Love
Today is Valentine’s Day, and I wish all of you a day filled with live-giving, healing, transformational love. Let none of us be satisfied by the saccharine over-sweetness of infatuation or the self-serving pungeance of lust; let us only be satisfied by unconditional, pure, and abiding love.
I profess the…
Read More →What we can learn from being sick
The following is the full text of the February edition of my monthly column, Tea & Empathy, in the Redmond UMC Newsletter. Click here to go to the RUMC website to download the newsletter.
I am recovering from the worst cold I’ve had in years. I’m one of…
Read More →Sermon: The Word of God
This sermon was preached originally on January 3rd, 2010, at All Pilgrims Christian Church. I preached an updated version of it on January 2nd, 2011, at Magnolia United Methodist Church. The manuscript is from the 2010 worship service, and the audio is from the 2011 worship service….
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