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Hospitality for Selfish People
Last night I finished a fantastic book, Hospitious Adoption, that was given to me my our son’s birth-grandparents. I strongly commend this book to anyone considering adoption or, like ourselves, living as adoptive families. There is theological depth, practical wisdom, and a paradigm-shifting approach to adoption contained in these pages. Hospitality is the lens through…
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Christmas Pageant
A couple of weeks ago, on the coldest and windiest Sunday of the year, our church held a Christmas pageant. The folks who put it together did a phenomenal job, from the set and script to the congregational worship interspersed throughout. Christine Otte took some great photos during the service and in the lobby over…
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“…in the form of a slave.”
This evening I’ve spent some time working on Sunday’s sermon. Appropriate for Advent, the sermon focuses on the incarnation, God taking on human form. Less appropriately perhaps, I’ve titled the sermon, “A Profane Christmas.” My hope is to show how the birth of Jesus ought first to offend before it comforts us. These sentences from…
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The View From Here [Video]
The first real snow of the season has arrived over the past few days. This is the view from our back porch.
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Does Marriage Matter?
The National Marriage Project out of the University of Virginia recently released a substantial report on the current state of marriage in America. The report has received a good bit of attention and plenty of different interpretations. One of the more insightful commentaries I read came from Ross Douthat in the New York Times who…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 