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Father to Son: The Talk
I was privileged to pastor for 17 years and remain a pastor of sorts in the same community. I consider shepherding a local community of saints one of the greatest joys of my life, albeit one of the...
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Her (Not-So) Secret Garden
I have an unsettling statistic to share with you. At present, in our country, there are 3,000,000 ongoing cases of child molestation. That means, while you are reading this, three million children...
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God’s Job With Me
I have a disability. I am not, however, defined by it so I don’t consider myself a disabled person but, rather, a person with a disability. More to the point, my paralysis is what God is using – my...
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Graham’s Song
Yes, that’s actually our late son’s voice on the recording. He was probably a year and a half at the time. Graham didn’t start walking until 15 months (I worried he’d grow up to be like his Dad), but...
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Clouds Into Stars: Celestial Stories of Our Son
My boy on one of the many ‘father-son’ ministry trips we took together; here, we’re at Christian Overcomers disability camp Today is month two of our son’s leaving his cold, hard earth and finding full...
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Gone…But Not Forever…
Graham, sharing with the millennials group in 2012. He was in a recovery program in Atlanta and in a ‘good place’ It’s fitting that before I could post this, my 9th (and presumably last) installment...
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8:59
Our last good-bye to Graham wasn’t on his death bed, it was 9 months and 2 days earlier – the early morning of March 14th at which time he left our home and went north to Minnesota. The memory sits...
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IT’S STILL WORTH IT
My wife and I are bereaved parents of a 24-year old son we buried nearly six months ago. In the wake of our beautiful ache, we both maintain the indicatives of this and my prior post. God remains good...
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The Courage of a Young Lion
Watercolor artwork by Dylan Pierce (another one of my young lions!) __________________ Over the past few years I’ve featured a “lion’s share” segment on my blog, providing a platform for the ‘young...
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An Amazing Thing Happened On The Way To Our Son’s Grave
Funny thing about rainbows, they’re actually circles, not half-arcs. Obviously they look like arches to us because of our limited perspective, seeing only half the story because the horizon kind of...
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Advent Podcast #3: God With Us Misfits
This week, on ‘The Pasture’s Podcast’ for Advent: Jesus told her about heavenly water and said it’s just for her. It can’t be bought or earned. It’s given by the Ladle of Grace. Once offered, though,...
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Clouds Into Stars: Celestial Stories of Our Son
My boy on one of the many ‘father-son’ ministry trips we took together; here, we’re at Christian Overcomers disability camp Today is month two of our son’s leaving his cold, hard earth and finding full...
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Advent Podcast #3: God With Us Misfits
This week, on ‘The Pasture’s Podcast’ for Advent: Jesus told her about heavenly water and said it’s just for her. It can’t be bought or earned. It’s given by the Ladle of Grace. Once offered, though,...
View ArticleEither Way…I Still Praise Him.
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. (David, Psalm 139:5) We are distressed/hard-pressed/troubled/squeezed on every side… (Paul, 2 Corinthians 4:8) Nobody puts ‘Baby’ in a...
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Why am I at the Shepherd Center these four weeks? I may not know the full answer to that yet, but I do have an idea. I just prayed with one of the nurses here in my room, asking God to give her and her...
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Father to Son: The Talk
I was privileged to pastor for 17 years and remain a pastor of sorts in the same community. I consider shepherding a local community of saints one of the greatest joys of my life, albeit one of the...
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