PastorTom.blog
Reflections, sermons, studies, questions, and observations from Tom Sims.
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Now Is the Time
Now is the time for listening, hearing, and understanding. It may be painful, humbling, and frustrating, but it is breakthrough time.
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Why Is It Difficult for Rural Americans to Conceive of Police Brutality?
The answer to many of our current problems is small, community policing structures that are demilitarized and hyper-relational.
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Lemonade requires the lemon be squeezed. Oil requires that the olives be pressed. Art, so often flows from tormented souls, twisted, pressed, heated, squeezed. Out of the depths we cry to Thee, Oh Lord. There is…
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The New Order
The church is part of a brand new order in God's Kingdom where human authority is not required to legitimize its message and deeds. It is neither required nor desired, recognized nor sought. It is a…
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Feeling Lost? Disoriented?
Where are we? We are right where we started. We live in a world of ambiguity and confusion, a world of tension and hostility, and a world of lust and desire. We share a common…
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Examine Closely with Durable Hope
Assume less than you suspect. Inspect even what you expect. Squint the eye examining minutia. Ask more questions than you answer. Preface your declarations with wiggle room for change of mind and heart. And yet, somehow,…
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Collected Meditations on Paradox, Self-Reflection, Leadership, and Adversarial Relationships
Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash If you shy away from paradox,You'll be left with only one doc.Sometimes, a second opinion is in order.Sometimes you can get both perspectives from the same Source.God sometimes scrambles our…
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Scandalous Forgiveness
Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash Forgiveness is a scandal. Forgiveness is irrational. It is out of balance, disproportionate, beyond our capacity, humanly unjust, and controversial … and very, very real, liberating, and healing. It…
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Hypocrisy Police
I really do not have time, energy, nor inclination to be a full-time hypocrisy cop. But, if I were such a cop…
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Your Sins Are Forgiven
We have opportunities for huge turn-around moments.
