Tag: Church

  • A Confession of Sin

    As I confessed in the past blog post tagged here, The Sin of Overprotection, my biggest sin is overprotection. I know that this might sound benign. But, in my experience, it does me as much harm as other people’s professed sins, It has cost me relationships, it has caused me needless suffering, and in many…

  • Being With God

    Being With God

    God is the ground of being, being-itself; who concerns us ultimately. Thus, God is our ultimate concern. — Paul Tillich I’ll be honest with you and say that on a weekly if not daily basis, I find myself wondering what good I am doing as a pastor. It’s not that I don’t appreciate what I do or the people with…

  • Living for the Questions Dying for the Answers

    How frustrating would it be to be able to speak every language in the world fluently and yet have a language of your own that no one else could speak? Imagine that.  Here you are able to understand everyone in their native tongue, but no one can understand you when you speak yours.  What’s worse…