I paused half-way up the fire-tower. Night had swallowed the trees a few yards beneath me and my friends weren’t climbing yet. I leaned back against against the girders behind me and let go of the ladder. My palm was cold against my fingers when I clenched my hand.
In the silence and darkness I [...]

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Everybody’s talking about story these days. Or it seems like that sometimes. Narrative Theology and Narrative Preaching are the happening thing–the highest wisdom I can find at my college about writing is that plot governs everything from the polemical essay to the sermon–recently I’ve been bombarded from several directions with the idea that even Christianity [...]

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To you, O Lord, I call;
my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,
when I cry to you for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward your most holy sanctuary.
Our rock speaks. This is the difference [...]

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Thou art worthy of an adoration greater than my dull heart can yield; invigorate my love that it may rise worthily to thee, tightly entwine itself round thee, be allured by thee. — “Journeying On” from The Valley of Vision
Yesterday, here on the Dordt Campus, we all experienced an event called Taste of Sioux Center. [...]

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