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We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from... →
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally... →
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a... →
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for... →
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it... →
I know the world is hungry for good ministry.
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that... →
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the... →
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight... →
As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately... →
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