O By The Way

Of all the characters in the story of Jesus’ birth, and there are many, Joseph is the one that gets the least attention.  Granted there are many others who play important and even more dramatic roles, but the one Joseph plays is truly heroic.  Were it not for Matthew, Joseph would have gotten just an honorable [...]

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Yesterday was an annual memory maker for me.  We gathered as a congregation for our annual concert-worship, led by our choir and a host of other musicians in the music of the season.  Our gifted music staff, headed by our Director of Music Ministries, Toni Brosius, each year attracts not only people from our congregation [...]

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I pastor a small church in a land of big, high-profile megachurches.  They are all around us.  Saddleback Church is a half-hour east of us, Mariners church is just over the hill and the mother-church for Calvary Chapel and Rock Harbor are just blocks away.  How do you compete with all these large churches? Well, certainly I [...]

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The season just started.  No, I’m not talking about Christmas. Man, just the name Christmas scares up feelings of panic and stress and overload for so many of us.  W.H. Auden said in one of his famous poems, “Christmas is the time of year when we all try unsuccessfully to love all of our relatives.”  What [...]

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