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Live like God is real. Watch what happens to your life. I write about life and faith. I try to be honest, gently provocative, and authentic. If you like to think about the faith your're living within this cultural context ...well, then this might be for you.

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Murph's Place · 2W ago

More than an issue or two

Now it starts.Romney is against gay marriage. Obama is for it. And if I’m reading it all correctly battle lines are being drawn around one issue. Big mistake. There’s more than one issue. How about … immigration, poverty, terrorism, health care, race relations, civil rights, the deficit, life issu

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Murph's Place · 1M ago

In Between Time

How many times in your life have you lived with a sense that ‘something is changing’? You might sense a subtle change in a spouse’s behavior, a friend is less available, or you might find yourself further out of the loop in the workplace. Something is happening. You’re sure of it but if asked for

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Murph's Place · 1M ago

Easy to Hate

Have you ever thought about what Jesus's command to love enemies and pray for persecutors is all about? It's a tough passage of scripture. (Matthew 5: 38-48) It's almost counterintuitive or at least countercultural.It's easy to hate. Just look at the world around us. Go to the middle east and wit

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Murph's Place · 2M ago

Thinking about Technology

I was reading in Leadership Journal and this statement was made by 29 year old Jonathan Merritt in an article entitle ‘Outlooks on Outreach’: “… racism was a blind spot for my dad's generation. But at least now they do see it, and people like my dad have confessed it as a sin. I'm not sure my genera

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Murph's Place · 3M ago

Lives Refocused

There are times when one can only smile. Two or three times a year a group of people walks into our church seeking to refocus their lives.They are wounded. Broken. Life has thrown them a curve ball and they don't know what to do.For a few it was thirty years ago or even more when they stood at an

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Murph's Place · 3M ago

Be. Thoughtful.

There’s some things off limits to discussion in just about every church. We find it hard to talk about war, poverty, justice, immigration, abuse, politics, Israel, and life issues. Why?In just about every church there is an assumption that just about everyone is in lockstep on important cultural an

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Murph's Place · 4M ago

Snow, Tebow, Cowardice and other Brain Blurts

We had a modest snow in Chicagoland last night Enough to snarl traffic and compel me to rev up the snow blower. I actually don't mind shoveling and snow blowing. It's actually one of the few things I do that has a sense of finality to it. I can look at our walks and driveway and can actually say

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Murph's Place · 4M ago

To not lose track ...

Author Frederick Buechner once said "To lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually."Tomorrow, many will have a holiday. It’s in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.. And, I for one, am glad we honor his life and accomplishments. I don’t want to lose

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Murph's Place · 4M ago

Leaning right?

I'm a conservative. Maybe not in the way you define it but I'm pretty well convinced that I lean to the right. You see, I have a high regard for what happened long ago. The lessons of the past need to inform the here and now. If not, we're doomed to keep repeating the failures of the past. I believ

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Murph's Place · 4M ago

I Have Issues

Two words have been in the back of my mind for awhile. I'm beginning to think they are God's words for me in 2012.The first word is ...deeper. I think it means to go deeper in the things that matter to God. Deeper in those things that will make a difference in my own life and in the life of

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