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Catchin' Some Waves: December 2014
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. With An Infant's Cry the War was Won. Suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying:. Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to people He favors! When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.". But here a tiny infant was lowered into a manger – a box from which animals ate. And Hi...
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Catchin' Some Waves: Holocaust Deja Vu
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Saturday, January 10, 2015. In 2010 I was privileged to visit Paris briefly and Grenoble for a week. Beautiful cities. One of the sites we were able to visit in Grenoble was a Holocaust museum. It provided an excellent look into the extreme troubles French Jews (and non-Jews who were sympathetic) suffered at the hands of an evil ideology, Naziism. I was are of the atrocities in Nazi death camps and the horrific medical experiments which used Jews as guinea pigs, but didn't the history in France. Glad to ...
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Catchin' Some Waves: March 2015
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Sunday, March 29, 2015. A Most Controversial Man. Never one to shy from controversy, the short trek from Bethany to Jerusalem found Him with a growing crowd of the curious and the confessors. Just days before in the little suburb village the One who had become a sensation in both Galilee to the north and Judea to the south by His miraculous powers had done the impossible again. 8220;He raised a dead man to life. I saw it with my own eyes”. Maybe they just got caught up in the moment. Certainly they never...
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Catchin' Some Waves: Is Yours a "Toxic Church?"
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Is Yours a "Toxic Church? I just came across this article. Today about toxic churches and how their poison destroys pastors. While there are certainly enough examples of square pegs in round holes and the power hungry serving as pastors, and there's plenty of blame to pass around as to why some churches can just never find the "perfect fit" from a pastor, I found this article telling. We had grown significantly in those first six months. Already we were seeing 40 in attendance...
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Catchin' Some Waves: Hope Just in Time
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Thursday, June 18, 2015. Hope Just in Time. A young man who grew up a few houses down the street died suddenly last week. The life that led to his death at 34 did not leave us being totally surprised at the news, but at the same time totally sad. But I wrestled over the days leading up to today's service. What would I say? This morning I opened up the condolences posted on the site of the funeral home. Lots of sorrow. Lots of "in a better place" and "another angel" things. Many fond remembran...I know fo...
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Catchin' Some Waves: A Most Controversial Man
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Sunday, March 29, 2015. A Most Controversial Man. Never one to shy from controversy, the short trek from Bethany to Jerusalem found Him with a growing crowd of the curious and the confessors. Just days before in the little suburb village the One who had become a sensation in both Galilee to the north and Judea to the south by His miraculous powers had done the impossible again. 8220;He raised a dead man to life. I saw it with my own eyes”. Maybe they just got caught up in the moment. Certainly they never...
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Catchin' Some Waves: When It is Time to Limit Someone’s Freedom
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Thursday, January 8, 2015. When It is Time to Limit Someone’s Freedom. We've all heard it said, "Faith and politics don't mix". I'm not so sure. I believe that there are some points where faith (and for lack of a better term) political beliefs do intersect. My understanding of my Christian faith is that it does and should guide all my other beliefs since it is so much of who I am. I’ll defend your right to belittle my faith. But if you are I won’t seek to kill you. Likewise, we are blessed to worship as ...
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Catchin' Some Waves: Sometimes the Band Wagon is a Poor Ride
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Monday, February 9, 2015. Sometimes the Band Wagon is a Poor Ride. Last week he got busted. The venerable military news source from within the Pentagon exposed him as a liar for saying a chopper on which he was a passenger took enemy fire…or something like that. Now, years later his “embellishment” has come back to bite him. Realizing he was caught, he quickly broadcast his form of an apology to the military. And I naively thought that would be the end of that. But was I ever wrong! I just would rather l...
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Catchin' Some Waves: Dare We Take Such Risks
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Monday, March 2, 2015. Dare We Take Such Risks. Thursday marks a week since a horrific crime shocked the entire Outer Banks community and even more so our faith community, which has reached, out to and opened itself up to the homeless who live among us. While staying in one of our churches and for reasons I have not yet heard, one of the guests of A Room in the Inn. Violently stabbed another guest, killing him. And it happened in a church. A Room in the Inn. With no urban center they seek to blend in, no...
