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The View From Here
I returned yesterday from ten days in Israel with fellow pastors (and friends) from our south side neighborhood. In addition to visiting sites of New Testament significance, we spent time with some experts who are informing our work on post-traumatic counseling here in Chicago. The photo above was taken somewhere in Jerusalem, though my jet-lagged brain…
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A Sermon: Waking from the Dream
1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. 2 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry…
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5 Favorite Books of 2015
I read thirty books this year– not nearly as many as some of you, but respectable for me. A few were assigned by editors for review and some of these were lost on me, but for the most part I’d recommend my entire list to you. Still, each year I’m in the habit of picking five that…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 