We recently did a Good Friday service that centered on the seven words (statements) of Christ while he was on the cross. While preparing for that service, I did a deeper dive into one of those statements that has puzzled me some across the years: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew […]
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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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This is the fourth installment in my series on the Nicene Creed. You can read the first three installments here, if you are interested. This post will take a look at another one of the more interesting controversies surrounding the creed, involving, literally, one little letter. But that one little letter makes a world of
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This is part 2 of our series on The Greatest Creed Ever Written. You can read part 1 here. This post touches on the background of the Nicene Creed. For Christians today, the doctrine of the Trinity is surrounded by mystery. We sing songs and hymns that speak of the Trinity: Let all things their
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Saying “goodbye” is hard. If you’ve ever had to send someone off on a long journey or a child off to college, you know what I’m talking about. I’ve got a good friend that is preparing for that very thing right now—saying goodbye to a daughter that has enrolled in a school far away. I
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How do you give emphasis to something when you are writing? Online people write things in ALL CAPS to indicate they are being really serious. Sometimes we are not content to put one exclamation point at the end of a sentence so we put two or three. Others choose to use words like “awesome” or
