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A Reflection on Black History Month
In recent weeks at IBC, we’ve been discussing the importance of wrestling with our own personal past—our life story—to better understand our present and God’s intentions for our future. This is a vitally important part of our ongoing spiritual growth and development. God has made us who we are through the formative experiences and relationships of our lives: though our heritage, our heroes, our high points, and our hard times.
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The Skill of Gratefulness
Last weekend I mentioned at IBC that gratefulness is a powerful antidote to anger.
Chatter
The Gift of Blessing
In the mid-nineties, there was a popular book called The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. One of the five languages explained in Chapman’s book is receiving gifts.
eLetter
The Trinity and “The Shack”
When William P. Young self-published The Shack about a decade ago, he touched off a fierce theological debate about the problem of evil and the nature of the Trinity.
Chatter
A Cow Named Kisses
Yesterday, my husband and I took our kids Drew (9) and Madeline (6) to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. As Fort Worthians, we find it’s almost a necessary outing each year, like a holy pilgrimage.
Chatter
Finding Beauty in the Desert
Last month, I sat down with Barry Jones, Jason Elwell, Crystal Elwell, and Jason Stein to discuss Lent at IBC.
eLetter
Oneness in Christ
A colleague told me today that he particularly appreciated a specific point I made in my sermon last Sunday on being a peacemaker.