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Two Worlds, or One?
I had the pleasure and honor of speaking this past week at two events – MissionsFest Vancouver and, a few days later, a retreat for the students and faculty of Ambrose Seminary. MissionFest...
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The Four Best Places to Live
Just released through Amazon, available in Audio or ebook format:...
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I Am the One Jesus Loves
I am preparing (among approximately one thousand other things) to teach this spring at Regent College a course on the story of David.[*] So I soak daily in his story and his songs, and then scrounge...
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Around the Table
I love my new job. And I loved my old job. For 24 years, I was a pastor, and it was good (except the times it wasn’t). This past 7 months, I’ve been a professor. And it is very good, and so far I...
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Let It Snow
It’s snowing in Alberta today, and minus 10. It’s snowed all week. Actually, it’s snowed here since October 6, non-stop, except for a few times it stopped. It’s almost April. And minus 10. And...
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http://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2014/mark-buchanan-on-lessons-from-david
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When God Dwells in our Midst
There’s a biblical prophecy I’ve freshly discovered. I eagerly await its fulfillment and am doing whatever I can, whatever I must, to hasten it. The prophecy is in Zechariah 8. It begins with a...
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Jesus’ Favourite Disguises
Jesus has two favorite disguises: the least of these, and the servant. It’s hard to say which he likes or uses more. Sometimes he combines them, appearing as the lowly servant, the slave...
View ArticleEverlasting Father
I was invited to preach at Cochrane Alliance last week, opening their advent series with Everlasting Father. http://www.cochranealliance.com/sermons/and-he-shall-be-called/everlasting-father
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Bless me too, Father
Jacob means wily. He was aptly named. He had, from the womb, both a vise grip and light fingers, a tenacity for laying hold and not letting go, and a skill for taking other people’s stuff. He rode...
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I was invited to preach at Cochrane Alliance last week, opening their advent series with Everlasting Father.
View ArticleBless me too, Father
Jacob means wily. He was aptly named. He had, from the womb, both a vise grip and light fingers, a tenacity for laying hold and not letting go, and a skill for taking other people’s stuff. He rode into...
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A Slave Driver Called Pettiness
“Nothing is as hard to suppress as the will to be a slave to one’s own pettiness.” Abraham Joshua Heschel Ah, yes. Yes, and ouch. I wake daily to a battle: the fight to silence my inner voice of...
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Are You Eccentric?
If there’s an international anthem, here’s its refrain: I’m so busy, I’m so tired, there’s more for me to do than there is of me to do it. Or somesuch. I hear it everywhere. I’ve travelled on five...
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Arms Wide Open
Recently I spoke three times at Ambrose University, where I teach, on the theme of hospitality. I used three texts – John 4, where Jesus meets a Samaritan woman, Luke 19, where Jesus meets a...
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It is not clear whether we are rushing toward or waiting for some bright beginning, but everything in us bends to it with an ache deep as pleasure but dark. Whenever I break something say bread or a...
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Daughter
It’s easy to imagine her, her body shaped around her pain the way a tree grows around a field stone, bends to the givenness of the thing. But beyond that, what do we know? Was she young, old, fat,...
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In Praise of Small Beginnings
I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my son in Bethlehem. It was both wonderful and disruptive. And it was the least festive Christmas I’ve ever had, at least measured by my childhood memories...
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