The Healing of All Harms
So I’m reading this book. On the bestseller lists. Been around for 30 some-odd years. Getting the Love you Want: A Guide for Couples. ...
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- May 1, 2020
- 3 min
Trading Places
Palm Sunday is a strange day liturgically. We start our services by remembering the joyful anticipation of Jesus’ triumphal entry into...
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- Apr 30, 2020
- 3 min
Dirty Feet
In John 13, when Jesus comes to Peter to wash his feet, Peter protests. “Whoa! This is all wrong! You’re the Messiah, what the heck...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Good Friday Genetics
What we do and what we experience change who we are. It has been established genetically. Identical twins can end up with very...
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- Apr 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Chess Master of Free Will
Free will gets kicked around often in theological and philosophical circles. What is free will? Are our wills truly free to choose? ...
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- Mar 28, 2020
- 4 min
Laws of Attraction?
Here is where I will probably get into some trouble. Not that I have a problem with what I am about to say, but I know some folks will...
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- Mar 23, 2020
- 3 min
Does Disaster Come to a City… Unless the Lord Has Done It?
There’s something about our hearts. They don’t like submission. They don’t like authority. They rebel against the notion of being under...
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fathermark
- Mar 14, 2020
- 3 min
Coronavirus Update for Our Worship
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, God’s peace to you. I write both to encourage you and to inform you as we stand in these...
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fathermark
- Mar 12, 2020
- 3 min
The Things We Fear
Vladimir Putin just had his terms of service as President reset to zero by the Russian government, effectively allowing him to serve two...
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fathermark
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
Ashes and Dust
Today marks the beginning of Lent in the Western Christian churches. Forty days (not counting Sundays) leading up to Easter. Forty days...
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fathermark
- Feb 11, 2020
- 2 min
Men and Axes: Iron Sharpening Iron
We went axe throwing last night. Yes, it’s a thing. Somehow, someone thought it a great idea to mix alcohol and folks throwing battle...
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- Feb 3, 2020
- 4 min
Suffering and the Purposes of God
In the last post, Joseph, the favorite son of Jacob, had been sold by his brothers to Midianite traders. The jealous siblings dipped his...
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- Jan 17, 2020
- 4 min
Of Pain and Family
It can’t be helped, I suppose. Families incubate and perpetuate their brokenness. Until we are finally and fully healed, we will hurt...
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fathermark
- Jan 2, 2020
- 3 min
Of Cake and the Cosmos: Or, Attaching the Right Questions
For the last few years I have been in the habit of reading through the entire Bible each year. It’s January, so I have started again and...
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fathermark
- Dec 28, 2019
- 2 min
Incarnation
In the traditional Christmas Day Gospel reading, John 1:1-18, we have those remarkable words about the Word. In the beginning was the...
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fathermark
- Dec 21, 2019
- 2 min
Shepherd Guardians
This is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard…. (What Child Is This?) Confession on the front end that this is something of a sentimental...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Mar 18, 2019
- 4 min
Learning to be Sinners - Together
He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. In spite of corporate worship, times of prayer, fellowship, and even ministry together,...
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Fr Mark
- Mar 13, 2019
- 3 min
The Community of the Church
In my last post, I spoke of the superficialities of our post-modern culture and the breakdown in true community. Of course, the...
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Fr Mark
- Mar 5, 2019
- 2 min
Ghosts in the Machine
We are ghosts in the machine. We inhabit a soft reality. Call it the way of the world in the wake of modernism – or Post-modernism....
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Fr Mark
- Oct 3, 2018
- 2 min
Infinitudes
Why was it supposedly necessary for Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of mankind? Couldn't God just let us pay for our own moral f
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