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Noah’s story is NOT a kids story. Every children’s bible I’ve ever seen has it in there with cute little pictures of bears, elephants, and giraffes. I’d love to know how many kid books have been written on Noah. It has to be the most retold story in scripture. As I stated this past week, [...]

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The story of Cain and Abel disturbs me on many levels. The idea that sin is out to ambush Cain…on purpose…with no remorse…to destroy him…that’s disturbing enough. That’s reality though, a reality I’m afraid that so few of us take seriously. Sin’s end aim for humanity is to kill and destroy. I learned in the [...]

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This Friday night (February 5) at Warehouse 414 (map, facebook), the entire Origins series will be displayed and auctioned with all proceeds going to Circle of Friends. As to how this all got started, you can read that story here. The auction will start at 5.30 pm on Friday night but Warehouse 414 is going [...]

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Christian popular culture is like a reflection of regular pop culture through a funhouse mirror. In Christian-World, Kirk Cameron is a huge star, Jars of Clay is a hot music group, and sending money to strangers who browbeat you on TV is a rational decision. From G4tv.com. So starts the review of a new video [...]

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Sermon on January 10 was about humanity. Philip was our artist. He is a senior at the high school and works with Circle of Friends. He’s a very soft-spoken young man. I think there are two opposite and incorrect extremes in understanding humanity. The first is seeing us as the center of the universe, the [...]

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What a Sunday. You can listen to the service here. Rick – once again – hit it out of the park with his acoustic version of Gravedigger. I’m going to go back and do a quick overview of each week with the artwork and a quick bio of the artist. Spencer was this week’s artist. [...]

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And it was good… All good theology starts with Genesis 1. That is, I think all good theology starts with the concept that God existed before the beginning and He created and what He created was good. Why? Because God is good and the creation has His fingerprints all over it. It is creative, diverse, [...]

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I had this crazy idea one day last November while visiting Washburn Rural High School. The backstory: I’m a bit of an art geek. Yes, it’s true. The Denver Art Museum was a haven for me. In fact, last month I took the kids to the Kemper Contemporary in Kansas City. They like it as [...]

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Cooper seems to be doing very well at his new school. First, he won the school spelling bee and is now his school’s rep in the county spelling bee. Second, his piece of art was hanging in the hall this morning when I dropped him off. Pretty humbled to have the kids we have.

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