neighbor: Red Letter Challenge

Sing it with me now… “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhoodA beautiful day for a neighborWould you be mine?Could you be mine? It’s a neighborly day in this beautywoodA neighborly day for a beautyWould you be mine?Could you be mine? I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like youI’ve always wanted to […]

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Busted

If there is a consistent theme in my preaching and writing, it is relationships. GOD is Father, Son and Holy Spirit…relationship. The whole of Scripture comes down to “love God and love others”…relationship. So I am a bit embarrassed to relate the following story of how I did not do a good job of living […]

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Even the Creepy Dude Next Door?

“Who is my neighbor?” It’s the question an “expert in the law” asked of Jesus in an attempt to justify some less than neighborly behavior. Jesus answers with the Parable of the Good Samaritan.  (check out the story here) I love this passage, as challenging as it remains.  I resonate with the call to care […]

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