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Hope does not disappoint us (Rom 5:5) I often tell people that my life has been one dream come true after another. Indeed, many of my favorite imaginations have become realities as my life has unfolded. When I talk about it, I know myself that it all sounds to good...

 “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love……” (Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, hymn by Robert Robinson) A familiar personal battle, one with which most of us can identify—the war within ourselves between two mutually exclusive motives and...

Comfort often comes to me through the way the Bible places praise in so many prominent places in its teachings.  Often, just as the Psalmist is lamenting about great suffering, there is the sense of an intentional turn, a decision to focus attention God-ward.  In the...

Like everyone else, we continue to wind our way through the ongoing effects of Covid-19. Back in March, when WGA had its first ever Thursday Night Group meeting via Zoom, we had no idea that this would continue through the Spring and into Summer. Looking ahead through...

It’s Pride month. I never thought I would acknowledge Pride exists, yet here I am pondering it a bit more deeply this year because of how it relates to my identity. In the past, when I thought about the topic of identity, one label rose above the rest: Christian. It...

Dear God, As a single, celibate man it’s more than likely I won’t have the typical American marriage with 2.5 children. So in regards to this situation, what can family, intimacy and community look like for me?  Oh and btw, what do I do with my longings, emotional...

I want to be ready for whatever God gives me to do, or say, or be, in any given moment.  I want to be like the five wise virgins, who prepared well and were ready to go with the bridegroom when he came for them.  I do not anymore want to be like the five foolish...