Brave Love
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Adorning almost every Protestant church is a cross—inside, outside, over the altar, in the vestibule, in the minister’s office, and sometimes many stories high on top of the building. Read more →
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
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What must it have been like for folks living through World War I, 1914–1918? The horror of that war is still something I struggle to understand. Read more →
An Apology
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In the January 2015 “Transformation” edition of Quest, I had a sermon titled “Transformation vs. Acceptance.” In that sermon I gave passing mention to Jane Rzepka for the concepts I was writing about. Read more →
Human Feelings of Brokenness
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We often feel so alone and isolated in our very human feelings of brokenness. Read more →
Broken
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Have you ever come to a place in your life where everything is broken? Not only that, but broken by you? Read more →
Midori and the E Strings
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When Midori Goto was three years old her grandmother gave her a 1/16 violin for her birthday. Her mother and grandmother sensed that music was one of her gifts, and they were right. Read more →
From Your Minister
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According to some folks, everything wrong in this world is because of one disobedient woman who listened to a snake. She just had to eat that apple, and then everything that was whole became broken. We were all doomed. Read more →
REsources for Living
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One of the most important lesson we learn—and try to teach our kids—is that when something goes wrong or breaks, we need to take a deep breath and figure out how to fix it. Read more →
Did You Know?
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You can keep up with the many online events that the CLF offers through our website calendar. Read more →
The Unbroken
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There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable. Read more →