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  We do understand that it sometimes take high profile people doing outrageous high profile things or making outrageous high profile statements to advance a conversation. Don't we? I dislike outrage as much as the next passive aggressive, mild mannered dude, but … … but … … we need to talk. Here are some conversation…

Photo by Sacha Styles Good morning, afternoon, or evening. It is a new day. Whatever you worried about last night, that kept you tossing and turning … that glitch. that stitch in time, that hitch in your get-along, that which you dread … it's still there but something happened in the night. It shrank. That's…

  Leviticus is a holiness code for a holy people, marked solely by their identification with a Holy God and loyalty to The One. Holy means peculiarly set apart, but also points to transferable principles and concepts. Each section ends with a summary statement of The One's name and character providing the rationale for peculiar…

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego understood that there are some things far more important that safety and security.

Photo by Evan Dennis   And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? – Luke 3:10 John got the response that he must have hoped for. It was the right response. It was the only logical response from a people who had been touched and pierced by the penetrating Word of God:…

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. – Luke 3:9  Once a thriving industrial plant, the factory had ceased to be productive. Chaos was the order of the day. Supervisors could not…

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That…

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. – Luke 3:5-6 God called John to be a smoother and a “straightener”. In many ways, John’s role…

“And he changeth the times and the seasons … “- Daniel 2:21a Life goes on. The seasons of life proceed in progression. The secular envelopes the sacred in the culture. Seasonal and holiday decorations come down; Plants and flowers start turning brown; songs of the season decrescendo; greetings change. We move so quickly from, “Merry…