Tag Archives: Church

National Pastime

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Sports attendance, sports betting, and sports talk represent one of the most dominant realities on the American scene.  It’s all sports all the time.  Right? To quote a popular sports adage, “Numbers never lie.”  Let’s add together the most recent regular season total attendance figures of America’s four major professional sports… Read more »

Two Words

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What’s the number one thing that keeps spiritual searchers from walking through the doors of a church? That’s easy: Christians. Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell famously said that he would believe in a Savior when his followers began to act as if they were saved. Craig Detweiler, a Christian filmmaker, knows that secular… Read more »

Cracked Pots

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Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament.  They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.”   A quarter century ago Tom Smith, a pastor in South Africa, was on the fast track. Using his entrepreneurial spirit… Read more »