True Confessions of a 1st Year Pastor
One year ago today I became a pastor. I stood before God and my congregation and took my ordination vows and was ordained as a pastor. I’m still getting used to being called “Pastor Matthew” (and let’s...
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Making Room for Lament in Lent
A while back I read Debra and Ron Rienstra’s book, Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Ministry. Their use of the old wedding day tradition of “something old, something new, something...
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Even When Steeples Are Falling
Today, the great Notre Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire and burned. Images of the flames engulfing the monumental 12th century have flooded the internet and the world is understandably mourning the...
View ArticleDoing Something New
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:19 There’s a lot to...
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