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What the Detractors Are Saying About the CREC
Preparing for our meeting has me reflecting on these last three years. These 36 months have been fundamentally different from what I imagined.
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How To Be Ready to Die According to C.S. Lewis? & Cancer Diary #2
For this preparedness to die to be meaningful, we need a dominion mandate that applies not just to the broader culture, but to the person.
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Autobiographical Fragments from my Pastoral Calling, Part 5 + an Audio Sample of Mine from 26 Years Ago + Cancer Notes #1
Little did I know that a week later I would be addressing the entire class at our morning chapel.
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Autobiographical Sketches of My Pastoral Call, Part 4, Iliad Excursions, and Jayber Crow
It didn’t take long to spot the guy with a tie and my name writ large. He drove me to campus, and I will never forget my first sight.
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Answering the Call to the Pastorate: My High School Days in Pennsylvania, Part 3
I quickly found myself enjoying the theological banter among the seniors and arguing frequently on bus rides to soccer games and in Bible classes.
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August 2026

Answering my 9-Year-Old’s Question: “Dad, How Did You Decide to Become a Pastor?” -Part 2 & A Personal Update
One day he pulled me aside and asked whether I wanted to share my testimony in an evening service. I dreadfully agreed.
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Answering my 9-Year-Old: “Dad, How Did You Decide to Become a Pastor?” -Part 1
A Story of My Calling
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When God Laughs, He Means Business: Meditations on Psalm 2
When Yahweh God looks at their senseless movements of the wicked, He responds with a cosmic laugh, or what one author calls a “thunder of laughter, a…
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Where are the Pastoral Candidates for our Churches?
Many men simply should not enter the pastorate; others may need a season of careful reflection on the nature of the pastoral calling.
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A Review of Young Sherlock by Ezekiel Brito
In my mind, the most common theme among villains is writers making them misunderstood in an effort to understand them. A little bit paradoxical, if you…
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On Preaching, Shouting, Reading, and Flatterers
Friday Notations
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Not All Prodigals Come Home: The Blessings of an Ordinary, Non-Prodigal Life + Glen Hansard in his own words before his death
We should undoubtedly rejoice in the kindness of God in bringing satan-bound sinners to the foot of Jesus; to the Father’s house.
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