The Spirit Avoids the Spotlight

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Mad Max: Fury Road has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest action films of all time. Most people associate the Mad Max franchise… Read more »

The Spirit Interprets

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The US Navy had no business winning the Battle of Midway, the epic turning point of the Pacific theater of action in World War… Read more »

The Spirit Convicts

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. What would you do if you were stranded with a handful of other people on an uninhabited island? That question lies at the… Read more »

The Spirit Seals

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The McDonalds recently passed the 40th anniversary of our moving from Indianapolis to the nearby town of Zionsville, Indiana.  Back in 1983, it was our… Read more »

The Spirit Dances

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Kids ask great questions.  A young student named Emma asked her social studies teacher, Mr. Johnson, “How many lions do you think were in the… Read more »

The Spirit Breathes

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. On a chilly weekend early last spring, my wife Mary Sue felt awful.  A trip to the ER confirmed that she had pneumonia. The next… Read more »

Tricks, Treats, and Tombstones

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here So why are cemeteries such scary places on the last day of October? Historians believe that Halloween is the semi-Christianized version of an ancient Celtic festival that spanned October 31 and November 1 called Samhain (pronounced SAW-win) which marked the beginning of winter. Celtic lore suggested that during Samhain the boundary between the world… Read more »

Future Hope

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here According to a recent edition of Smithsonian Magazine, it “stands as the single most important piece of 20th century futurism.” The authors weren’t talking about Brave New World, 1984, The Hunger Games, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, or one of Israeli historian’s Yuval Noah Harari’s hair-raising prognostications.  America’s most memorable glimpse into the future was… Read more »

Head Games

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It was a strange interview. A young man, hoping to serve as the naturalist on the 1831 voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle as it surveyed the coastline of South America, sat before British Captain Robert FitzRoy. FitzRoy was impressed.  This candidate seemed both bright and congenial.  But something was wrong.  It was the young… Read more »

Smarter, Faster, Better

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Efficiency is the hope of democracy.”  That was the gospel according to Frederick Winslow Taylor, the founder of the Scientific Management movement that swept America early in the 20th century. Taylor was absolutely convinced that America could work smarter, better, and faster.  And he was just the man who could make it happen. In his… Read more »