For months perhaps years, I’ve wondered where all this hatred is coming from, but I’ve been asking the wrong question. I should have been asking how does all this hatred cease. I’ve noticed that where there are differences often those differences grow into hate, and I’m not just talking about differences in opinion. This growth…

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When you hear the term a “life of prayer and meditation” do you think about individual requests or an entire life turned toward God and dependent on him/her? A life of prayer expects no rewards and excludes self-congratulations. Instead a life of prayer includes openness, faith, and dependence on other’s prayer’s. A life of prayer…

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Luis is probably saying under his breath, “Hubbell now you’ve gone to meddlin’,” after reading the title of today’s message, and he’d be right. Many voices would suggest that the church has no business in politics or business. But businessmen and politicians do not let God’s people alone. Should the church stand by as people…

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There’s a lot of talk these last few days about self-examination and behavior. Nothing wrong with that. George Bernard Shaw said that a person’s real creed is that body of beliefs on which he habitually acts. Self-examination involves a personal study of our actual behavior, as seen in our thoughts, words, and deeds, to see…

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Because I am giving a lecture today on “What Happens Next” I’ve been reading a great deal about the election. (I think the group that invited me thought the election would turn out differently, and now they are stuck with me.) I can’t tell you how many times in the last few weeks that I…

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