At significant moment’s in our lives it is appropriate and even expected to take time to reflect upon the past, celebrate the present, and look with hope and anticipation into the future. Every year we do just that at our annual Baccalaureate service at Red Door Church. But what is a Baccalaureate service? The Meaning […]
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“Welcome to Red Door Church,” is a phrase that I have said hundreds of times on a Sunday morning to open our worship services. But this Sunday those words hit me different. Due to a fire our church is not worshipping at it’s normal location; we are meeting at a building just down the street—the
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In Psalm 63 David declares: “Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.” He goes on: “My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips…” Take a guess where David was at that moment? You might think, he’s in
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Before you read this post, I encourage you to read Genesis 22. This is the sixth installment to our Old Testament Story series. You can read the other installments here. God made a remarkable promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:5, promising 85 year old Abram that he would have a son and that his family
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A great many Christian churches across the world will gather this week for Ash Wednesday services, to mark the beginning of the Lenten season, a 40 day season (not counting Sundays) of preparation leading up to Easter. In preparation for Ash Wednesday service each year, I gather up the dry palm branches used during Palm
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My wife and I are 70 and 71. We’re still vibrant and engaged, but life at this stage takes its toll. Today, my wife has Parkinson’s, so her life is more limited than it has ever been. At age 50, she played #3 on the local college tennis team—yes, you heard that right—Queens University in
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