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Eternal Word and Changing Worlds

Posted: August 18, 2023

Since 2002, I have been intimately involved with Spirit and Truth Fellowship, a CRCNA church in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Hunting Park.  Our late Pastor, Dr Manuel Ortiz, was a professor of Urban Mission at my alma mater, We

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Justice Prayers - August 16, 2023

Posted: August 16, 2023

“God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” Rick Warren

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The Siege of Nagorno Karabakh

Posted: August 11, 2023

“People are going to start dying soon.”

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Justice Prayers - August 9, 2023

Posted: August 9, 2023

“Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.” - Robert Murray McCheyne

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Being Right or Being Righteous

Posted: August 7, 2023

A question for you: Do you value having the right opinion over doing right by your neighbours?  Or, to use the language of the ancient Hebrew prophets, do you value being right over being righteous – that is, being in right relationship

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When Love and Brokenness Collide

Posted: August 4, 2023

It’s eviction day, and the neighbours are celebrating. 

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Special Prayer: Murder of Gretchen Harrington

Posted: August 2, 2023

On Monday, July 24, 2023, a retired Christian Reformed pastor was charged in a murder case. Rev. David G.

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Justice Prayers - August 2, 2023

Posted: August 2, 2023

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.” C. S. Lewis

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The Danger of Spiritual Implicit Bias!

Posted: July 31, 2023

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was

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Toward Jesus’ Hospitality

Posted: July 28, 2023

In a world where xenophobia is intensifying, God calls us to practice philoxenia, love toward strangers, which in Greek means hospitality. The hospitality that we are talking about is a hospitality that Jesus embodied.

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