Old friends. As I sit at my computer and think about those words, it’s easy for me to quickly bring to mind many who fit that category. And there are more than a few who I consider my 3:00 am friends. (I could call them at that time and they’d come running!) We have […]
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The Wounds of a Friend
A Friend’s Counsel “Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it.” Psalm 141:5 New Living Translation We’d better learn who our real friends are. That smooth-talking ‘friend’ who smiles with words of encouragement regardless of our behavior is most likely […]
My Friends are …
60 Seconds of Pastoral Pondering It was called ‘Friend Day’ and was in our church playbook to use occasionally to get our people to invite their unchurched friends to a specific Sunday. It was usually accompanied by some success. There were people who discovered that church wasn’t necessarily all that frightening and that the […]