I had lunch with some pastor friends Wednesday, and one of them confessed to “giving up blogs for Lent.” He meant by this that he neither was reading blogs (including my own), nor was he contributing to his. It sparked interesting conversation over our lunch (along with, of course, prognosticating the upcoming Royals season.)
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Sunday I led the third of four Lenten series events at the church. We’ve been looking at Prayer: prayer in the bible, obstacles to prayer, and exploring together various ways to pray. Jeff and I have been trying to balance corporate and individual prayer as well as the various types of prayer (some people use [...]

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Jim Bonewald is small-church Presbyterian pastor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whom I “met” online through his blog, The Church Geek. Blogging pastors tend to be pretty cool, and Jim is no exception: I’m even taking advantage of his online appeal to join in a March Madness bracket pool called “Decently and in Order.” Did I [...]

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