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Only Love Will Save the World

Posted on July 21, 2017January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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  *SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read on if you don’t want to know plot points of Wonder Woman (2017 Film) Last Saturday evening, my mother and I went to see Wonder Woman. I was glad I saw it while on vacation. Otherwise I would have been up half the night re-writing my sermon. Wonder Woman asks…

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An Unusual Church Planting Journey

Posted on June 9, 2017August 2, 2021 by ptsblog
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I’ll be 47 years old in July. Like most second career seminarians I’ve met, I had little if any idea why I was there, and to be honest, I had little idea of what seminary was supposed to be. My life to that point had been driven by a lot of things, none of which…

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Post-Christendom and Bi-vocational Ministry

Posted on May 25, 2017January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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  Post-Christendom Ministry Standing in the middle of a field in Burnaby, British Columbia, I could not help but smile. Hundreds of people from our neighborhood—new immigrants, families, elderly, young professionals— streamed into a park for the second annual “Inclusion Festival.” A youth band from a local music school played on a stage and a…

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