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Servants see the big picture . An oft-told story has it that a man walked by a construction site one day and asked a worker, “What are you d...

...doin' in a dump like this?" (You can also listen and read the lyrics here .) Dylan sings a praise song.

This is a list from American Heritage . I'm most intrigued by the Kaplan book because Lincoln was, primarily, whether as a lawyer or a ...

Lee was the pioneering maker of documentary films whose work with the Lutheran Church--including A Time for Burning , is mentioned here . Le...

Servants tackle what they’re not good at doing . After an evening Lenten service, which included conversation about Christian servanthood, a...

"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure." (Reinhold Niebuhr) ...

Servants need never burn out . Servants can burn out, of course. But why do they? I can cite two major reasons. First, there’s the 80-20 ru...

[This, the last of a series of midweek Lenten sermons for 2009, was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church i...

Servants understand that sometimes, people will take advantage of them . Jesus once asked rhetorically: “Is there anyone here who, planning ...

I'm sure it seemed like the perfect plan in the garage. But not so much .

I mentioned here having picked up the 2006 release by The Elms, The Chess Hotel . I also mentioned that their previous work was clearly hea...

Think about thi s.

Servants sometimes ignore their SHAPE . Over the past week, we’ve talked about how servants find the kinds of servanthood for which God seem...

Read Carolyn Arends' thoughts here .

[I wrote two different sermons for yesterday's worship. This is the one I didn't give.] John 12:20-33 The story’s told of a Palm Sun...

Your SHAPE will change over time . I’m not talking about what will happen to some who spend time in the weight room or to others when middle...

[This was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio today.] John 12:20-33 When I was growing up,...

There are at least as many ways to be a servant of God as there are Christians . Your SHAPE is the prism through which the light of Christ i...

I don't know whether Shaun Reins approves or disapproves of President Obama's performance as a leader during the the president's...