THE LAST RIVER MILE
Thoughts near the take-out.
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A lot of opinions and stringent points fly around every, and I know I contribute to the swarm. I thought I take a break from it all and just share an old, funny story. (This will be appreciated best by those who have a non-urban background.) In the early years of our marriage my wife…
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It is astounding how much time and effort we human beings can put into keeping God leashed and under our control. Convincing ourselves we are doing the right and righteous thing, we in fact desperately try to domesticate God. I might limit God to the confines of my particular biblical interpretation. Or I can box…
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Along with most of the world I watched Alex Pretti get shot multiple times and I wondered how we got to this point in our nation. How does an American citizen legally carrying a non-brandished firearm get killed while trying to help another person? This comes with a flood of other questions for me. How…
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Big Spring feeds the Current River in the southcentral Missouri Ozark hills. It is the largest spring in the state of Missouri and one of the largest in all of North America. It churns out a staggering 290 million gallons of water a day, bursting forth out of an 80-foot deep hole in the ground.…
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If God is any kind of a reality for you, what is it that matters most to you about God? As I listen to people and as I observe myself, much of what we seem to like best about God revolves around that which God does, whatever that may be. God loves, God saves, God…
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The children are watching this current national dumpster fire. We might like to delude ourselves into believing they are just going about the business of being children, glued to their screens, and oblivious to everything going on. That is purely a delusion. They are watching, they are taking notes, and they are learning. And what…
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I’m a fan of the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” The last (?) episode features one of the characters giving a valedictorian speech at a high school graduation. In it he speaks of “bad chaos” and “good chaos.” One destroys and divides, he says, and the other is fertile turf for something new. The scene is…
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I remember watching in horror, in real time, as the United States Capital Building was attacked five years ago today. I am as opposed now to all which that assault represents as I was on January 1st, 2021. I actually oppose much, to be honest. I opposed faith which judges and dismisses more than it…
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Organized religion under the “Christian” label is in trouble in the United States. For most of my career as a local church pastor the overall problem of Christianity here was its benign nature. The majority of churches had become ingrown and maintenance-focused, rather than missional and outreach focused. As Methodism’s founder John Wesley feared, they…
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