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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was a youth director in Pennsylvania, I decided that I was going to hike the portion of the Appalachian Trail that goes through that state. Without saying this to anyone I arranged for a number of hikes with my youth group. The first one started at the border of PA and Maryland &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2024/11/06/watching-the-storm/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader

<p>Pursuing Truth &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “True curiosity is the pursuit of truth, the exploration of God’s creation and will for the world.” (The Curious Christian – Barnabus Piper) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We’ve been given the chance to prepare for heaven and it’s not about being good. It’s about being curious. Have you ever thought of heaven as the place &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2024/08/28/pursu

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C. S. Lewis, the Christian author and apologist, famous for “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” wrote in a letter about an incident where his brother heard a woman on a bus say, as the bus passed a church with a crib outside it &#8230; ‘They bring religion into everything. Look, they’re dragging &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2023/12/18/the-core/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-

<p>Mark is not the gospel most people turn to at Christmas&#8230; where&#8217;s the Christmas story in Mark? But as it says from verse one&#8230; The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God&#8230; When we start looking for Jesus we start at the very beginning (a very good place to &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2023/12/12/its-beginning/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">It&#8217;s Beginning&#8230;</span

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One the of things revealed in our Gospel, our Good News, is the importance of the individual. We have so many stories that name or otherwise identify people. Crowds are mentioned, but there are more stories about individuals. Jesus, famously, keeps telling people not to talk about him, but to share the work of &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2022/09/26/its-never-how-many/" class="more-link">Conti

<p>We went to visit our son, Sam, and his husband, Jarrett, at the end of July and beginning of August. It was a great trip to North Carolina and it was great to be in the mountains and all the GREEN. Boone isn’t far away from where Sam and Jarrett live and that’s where Sam &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2022/08/09/lost-and-not/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Lost and&#8230; not</span></a></p>

<p>Being right, especially in an argument, is a great thing. It provides fuel to the fire, energy to make our points, to clarify the other person’s misunderstandings or lack of reason, and to drive home our conclusion. It is an excellent feeling and leaves us, somehow, feeling full… as if we’ve just eaten a meal. &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2022/07/08/being-right/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Being Right</span></a></p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a time when our faith was irresistible. That’s the title of a book my friend, Dave, just sent me… Irresistible. He tells me it changed his life. I haven’t read it yet, but the title catches my heart because I know it is true. There was a time when our faith, following &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2022/06/29/influence/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Influence

<p>The Holy Spirit is the constant companion of the world. Each person in the world is vitally important to God and so God knows when each of us falls, knows the hairs on our head, knows what drives us. As we heal, through the work of the Spirit in our lives, we are led into &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2021/03/08/a-passionate-baseline/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Passionate Baseline</span></a></p>

<p>It’s been a year since the COVID-19 shut down began and we’ve lost about a person a minute during that time. I know of a hospital that will hold a Memorial service this week, honoring those who died within their patient rooms and ICUs and conference rooms (once the ICUs got full) and hallways (once &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2021/02/22/a-person-a-minute-a-serious-set-of-seconds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Person&#

<p>“In general, it seems more like genuine personal dealing if God helps persons to meet danger and disaster outside their own selves and make something good out of them, than if he removes the difficulties so as to make circumstances easy for them.”&nbsp; C. F. D. Moule In times of crisis, disaster or chaos, we &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2021/02/01/in-times-like-these/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">In Times Like&nbsp;The

<p>It&#8217;s hard to not allow hope to be a dreamy idea when we&#8217;re in the midst of pandemic reality, but it is the place Christ-followers are called to be. We&#8217;re not called to judge others, to decide who&#8217;s in or who&#8217;s out, who we should ignore or even dislike because of their policy choices, who &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2021/01/26/season-of-hope/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Season of Hope</spa

<p>I bow my head to admit to my soul that I don&#8217;t know everything&#8230;</p>

<p>There’s a verse that I came upon that I always thought was very important… Genesis 47:31. Today I think it is even more important.  It’s a little thought but a crucial one in a time of crisis.  The importance of this verse is revealed by answering the question, what is necessary for worship? Think of &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2020/03/23/an-important-reminder-in-a-time-of-crisis/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">An import

<p>&#8230;today we are looking to wield the power of God through three primary tools…Money, Politics and Weapons. </p>

<p>There is still an answer when I have none to give and that is because it is handed to me from someone else’s quiver.&nbsp; It is an arrow that pierces the heart of the closing fog, and like a flaming spark shot high and far, slices the darkness of the night of my wondering despair, &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2020/02/17/when-i-have-no-answer/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">When I have no&nbsp;answer</span></a></p>

<p>You are important. However you think the world sees you, I see your importance.</p>

<p>Wake and see darkness. Rise and find clothes. Come from bedroom to kitchen and heat water. Work out simple puzzles. Take a deep breath. Get ready for the day, washing, brushing, dressing, walking. Go to study with fellow voices and ears and thoughts and hearts. Hear the Word.&nbsp; Search the Word.&nbsp; Search for words to &hellip; <a href="https://seekinglife.blog/2020/01/23/a-grounded-morninga-list-and-not-a-poem/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-

<p>Faithfulness in a relationship is different than belief in a structure.</p>

<p>Forgiveness is one of the active ingredients of resilience.</p>